MINUTES 
                                           
                    SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION 
                               Monday, July 14, 2003 
                           1:00 p.m. or upon adjournment 
                      Betty King Committee Hearing Room, 2E.20 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a suspension of Senate Rule 11.18, a public hearing  
         of the Senate Committee on Government Organization was held on  
         Monday, July 14, 2003, in the Betty King Committee Hearing Room,  
         2E.20, at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Rodney Ellis                    Senator Teel Bivins 
         Senator Jeff Wentworth 
         Senator Kenneth Armbrister 
         Senator Kim Brimer 
         Senator Bill Ratliff 
         Senator John Whitmire 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 1:55 p.m.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted:   
          
         Senator Whitmire assumed the chair.   
          
         The chair laid out HB 53 and recognized the Senate sponsor,  
         Senator Ellis, to explain the bill. Senator Ellis sent up a  
         committee substitute; the chair recognized Senator Ellis to  
         explain the difference between the committee substitute and the  
         bill as filed.  Senator Ellis sent up Committee Amendment 1 and  
         moved adoption; without objection, the amendment was adopted.   
         Senator Brimer sent up Committee Amendment 2 and moved adoption;  
         without objection, the amendment was adopted Senator Armbrister  
         sent up Committee Amendment 3 and moved adoption; without  
         objection, the amendment was adopted.  Senator Armbrister sent  
         up Committee Amendment 4 and moved adoption; without objection,  
         the amendment was adopted. Senator Wentworth sent up Committee  
         Amendment 5 and moved adoption; without objection, the amendment  
         was adopted. Senator Ellis sent up Committee Amendment 6 and  
         moved adoption; without objection, the amendment was adopted.   
         Senator Whitmire requested unanimous consent to roll the  
         amendments into a committee substitute; without objection, it  
         was so ordered.  Senator Whitmire then moved that the committee  
         substitute be adopted; without objection, it was so ordered. No  
         witnesses testified or registered on the bill.  The chair moved  
         that the public testimony be closed; without objection, it was  
         so ordered.  Senator Whitmire moved that HB 53 do not pass but  
  
         that CSHB 53 be reported back to the Senate with the  
         recommendation that it do pass and be printed.  The motion  
         carried with a record vote of 6 ayes, 0 nay, 0 present not  
         voting, and 1 absent.   
          
         There being no further business, Senator Whitmire moved that the  
         Committee stand at ease subject to the call of the chair.   
         Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Rodney Ellis, Chair 
          
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         Karen Domino, Clerk