HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                          NOTICE OF FORMAL MEETING


COMMITTEE: Border and International Affairs

TIME & DATE: upon final adjourn./recess
             Monday, August 18, 2003

PLACE: Desk 75

CHAIR: Rep. Norma Chavez

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HB 51            Merritt
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operations, and financing of a border region high-speed rail
authority for the Texas-Louisiana and the Texas-Mexico border
regions; granting the power to issue bonds; imposing a tax;
granting the power of eminent domain.

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