MINUTES 
                                           
                            SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE 
                            Thursday, February 10, 2005 
                                     8:00 a.m. 
                           Capitol Extension, Room E1.036 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Finance was  
         held on Thursday, February 10, 2005, in the Capitol Extension,  
         Room E1.036, at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Steve Ogden                     Senator John Whitmire 
         Senator Judith Zaffirini                 
         Senator Kip Averitt 
         Senator Gonzalo Barrientos 
         Senator Kim Brimer                       
         Senator Bob Deuell 
         Senator Robert Duncan 
         Senator Kyle Janek 
         Senator Jane Nelson 
         Senator Florence Shapiro 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
         Senator Todd Staples 
         Senator Royce West 
         Senator Tommy Williams 
                                           
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         Senator Zaffirini called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m.   
         There being a quorum present, the following business was  
         transacted:   
          
         The chair laid out SB 1, the General Appropriations Bill, which  
         had been left pending at a previous hearing. 
          
         Testimony was given on the following agencies with witnesses on  
         the attached list: 
          
         Baylor College of Medicine 
          
         At 8:54 a.m. Senator Ogden resumed the chair.   
          
         LBB Presentation on General Academic Institutions 
         Texas Woman's University 
          
         At 9:54 a.m. Senator Ogden moved that the Committee stand  
         recessed until 45 minutes after adjournment of the Senate;  
  
         without objection, it was so ordered. 
          
         The Committee reconvened at 11:47 a.m. 
          
         Testimony resumed on the following agencies with witnesses on  
         the attached list: 
          
         LBB Presentation on Performance Reports 
         University of Houston System 
         Texas State University System 
         Midwestern State University 
         Stephen F. Austin State University 
         Texas Tech University System 
          
         Senator Ogden moved that SB 1 be left pending; without  
         objection, it was so ordered. 
          
         There being no further business, at 1:30 p.m. Senator Ogden  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed until 9 a.m. Monday,  
         February 14, 2005.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Steve Ogden, Chair 
          
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         Amy Jeter, Clerk