MINUTES 
                                           
                               Thursday, May 8, 2003 
                           10:00 a.m. or upon adjournment 
                                   Senate Chamber 
                                Senator Ogden's Desk 
                                           
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         Pursuant to suspension of Senate Rule 11.18, a public hearing of  
         the Senate Infrastructure Development and Security Committee was  
         held on Thursday, May 8, 2003, in the Senate Chamber, at Senator  
         Ogden's desk, at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Steve Ogden                     None 
         Senator Gonzalo Barrientos 
         Senator Bob Deuell 
         Senator Rodney Ellis 
         Senator Jon Lindsay 
         Senator Frank Madla 
         Senator Florence Shapiro 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
         Senator Jeff Wentworth 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 2:14 p.m.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted:   
          
         At 2:19 p.m. Senator Barrientos assumed the chair.   
          
         The chair laid out SB 1763 by Ogden, relating to vehicle  
         weights, which had been left pending at a previous hearing.   
         Senator Ogden moved that a committee substitute sent up and  
         adopted at a previous hearing be withdrawn; without objection,  
         it was so ordered.  Senator Ogden sent up a committee  
         substitute; the chair recognized Senator Ogden to explain the  
         difference between the committee substitute and the bill as  
         filed.  Senator Ogden moved adoption of the committee  
         substitute; without objection, it was so ordered.  Senator Ogden  
         moved that SB 1763 do not pass but that CSSB 1763 be reported  
         back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do pass and  
         be printed.  The motion carried with a record vote of 8 ayes, 0  
         nay, 0 present not voting, and 1 absent.   
         At 2:21 p.m. Senator Ogden resumed the chair.  
          
         The chair laid out HB 9 by Flores/Shapiro, relating to homeland  
         security, which had been left pending at a previous hearing.  
         Senator Wentworth sent up Committee Amendment 1 and moved  
         adoption; without objection, the amendment was adopted.  Senator  
         Shapleigh sent up Committee Amendment 2 and moved adoption;  
         without objection, the amendment was adopted.  Senator Shapleigh  
         sent up Committee Amendment 3 and moved adoption; without  
         objection, the amendment was adopted.  Senator Shapiro moved  
         that a committee substitute adopted at a previous hearing, and  
         Committee Amendment 1, Committee Amendment 2, and Committee  
         Amendment 3 be rolled together to create a new committee  
         substitute; without objection it was so ordered.  Senator  
         Shapiro moved adoption of the committee substitute; without  
         objection, it was so ordered.  Senator Shapiro moved that HB 9  
         do not pass but that CSHB 9 be reported back to the Senate with  
         the recommendation that it do pass and be printed.  The motion  
         carried with a record vote of 9 ayes, 0 nay, 0 present not  
         voting, and 0 absent.   
          
         The chair laid out HB 11 by Keel/Shapiro, relating to the  
  
         offense of terroristic threat and to the punishment as a capital  
         offense of murder occurring during the commission or attempted  
         commission of terroristic threat,  which had been left pending  
         at a previous hearing.  Senator Ellis sent up Committee  
         Amendment 1 and moved adoption; without objection, the amendment  
         was adopted.  Senator Shapiro moved that a committee substitute  
         adopted at a previous hearing, and Committee Amendment 1 be  
         rolled together to create a new committee substitute; without  
         objection, it was so ordered.  Senator Shapiro moved adoption of  
         the committee substitute; without objection, it was so ordered.   
         Senator Shapiro moved that HB 11 do not pass but that CSHB11 be  
         reported back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do  
         pass and be printed.  The motion carried with a record vote of 9  
         ayes, 0 nay, 0 present not voting, and 0 absent.   
          
         The following bills had no action taken in committee:  HB 479 by  
         Hunter/Armbrister and HB 1191 by Allen/Wentworth. 
          
         There being no further business, at 2:34 p.m. Senator Ogden  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Steve Ogden, Chair 
          
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         Amy Schwartz, Clerk