SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Education

TIME & DATE:  8:30AM, Thursday, May 15, 2003

PLACE: Capitol Extension E1.012

CHAIR: Senator Florence Shapiro

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I.    Call to Order

II.   Roll Call

III.  Approval of Minutes

IV.   The Committee will consider the following:

SB 1874            Lucio / et al.
Relating to the Irma Rangel School of Pharmacy of Texas A&M
University--Kingsville.

HB 219            Hope / et al.            SP: Staples
Relating to the display of the United States national motto in
public elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher
education.

HB 318            Grusendorf               SP: Shapiro
Relating to certification to teach school of individuals who hold
bachelor's degrees.

HB 673            Madden                   SP: Shapiro
Relating to parental notification of public school teacher
qualifications.

HB 912            Madden                   SP: Shapiro
Relating to the distribution of school district employment policies
to teachers employed under term contracts.

HB 1113            Crownover                SP: Zaffirini
Relating to returning a public school teacher to probationary
contract status.

HB 1406            Brown, Betty             SP: Staples
Relating to a recommendation by a school district employee
concerning a use of a psychotropic drug by a student or psychiatric
evaluation or examination of a student and to refusal by a parent
or certain other person to consent to administration of a
psychotropic drug to a student or to psychiatric evaluation or
examination of a student.

HB 1537            Dukes                    SP: Barrientos
Relating to a fee for statues of Barbara Jordan and Cesar Chavez
and related scholarships at The University of Texas at Austin.

HB 1887            Morrison                 SP: Ratliff
Relating to funds received by institutions of higher education to
cover overhead expenses of conducting research.

HB 1890            Morrison                 SP: Williams
Relating to tuition rebates to certain undergraduate students who
graduate from an institution of higher education without excessive
semester credit hours.

HB 1912            Wolens                   SP: Shapiro
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for The
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas to
finance biomedical research facilities and exempting the facilities
financed by the bonds from prior approval by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.

HCR 73            Griggs                   SP: Nelson
Directing the Texas Education Agency and the State Board of
Education to adopt and promote a virtues education program.

V.    Pending:

HB 195            Griggs                   SP: Nelson
Relating to the collection and distribution of delinquent ad
valorem taxes imposed by county education districts.

HB 411            Grusendorf               SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to improvement of science instruction and student
performance in public schools.

HB 558            Grusendorf               SP: Shapiro
Relating to rehiring experienced teachers under probationary
contracts.

HB 567            Berman                   SP: Deuell
Relating to the expulsion of a public school student who assaults,
murders, or attempts to murder another student.

HB 1440            Eissler                  SP: Van de Putte
Relating to the frequency of public school teacher appraisals.

HB 1441            Eissler                  SP: Williams
Relating to school districts that place an excessive number of
students in certain special education instructional arrangements.

HB 1776            Hughes                   SP: Nelson
Relating to Celebrate Freedom Week and to certain instruction in
social studies classes in public schools.

HB 2072            Grusendorf               SP: Shapiro
Relating to payment by teachers for missing textbooks in public
schools.

HB 2169            Telford                  SP: Shapiro
Relating to the payment of retirement benefits to retirees who are
employed by certain public educational institutions.

HCR 15            Woolley                  SP: Janek
Directing the State Board of Education to consider including
personal finance knowledge among the essential knowledge and skills
in the required public school curriculum.

VI.    Subcommittee Reports:

SB 1292            Ratliff
Relating to extending the boundaries of a junior college district
to include territory in the district's service area.

SB 1747            Lucio
Relating to minimum personal leave for faculty members at public
institutions of higher education.

HB 1649            Mercer / et al.          SP: Van de Putte
Relating to student fees charged at The University of Texas at San
Antonio.

HB 1650            Mercer                   SP: Van de Putte
Relating to student fees charged at The University of Texas at San
Antonio.

VII.   Recess

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