HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Human Services

TIME & DATE:  2:30PM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Monday, March 3, 2003

PLACE: E2.014

CHAIR: Rep. Carlos Uresti

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The Committee will hear invited testimony from the following agencies:
Texas Rehabilitation Commission, Texas Commission for the Blind, Texas
Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Texas State Board of
Examiners of Professional Counselors, and Texas State Board of Social
Worker Examiners.

The Committee with consider the following bills:


HB 493            Jones, Jesse
Relating to the continuation of the Texas Department on Aging.


HB 677            Dunnam
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Council on
Purchasing from People with Disabilities.


HB 455            Villarreal
Relating to a study regarding certain child-care initiatives.


HB 585            Villarreal
Relating to the membership of the Board of Protective and
Regulatory Services.




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