MINUTES 
                                           
                        SENATE COMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE 
                              Wednesday, June 21, 2006 
                                     9:00 a.m. 
                           Capitol Extension, Room E1.016 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Criminal  
         Justice was held on Wednesday, June 21, 2006, in the Capitol  
         Extension, Room E1.016, at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator John Whitmire                   Senator John Carona 
         Senator Kel Seliger                     Senator Rodney Ellis 
         Senator Juan Hinojosa                   Senator Jon Lindsay 
                                                 Senator Steve Ogden 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m.  The  
         following business was transacted:   
          
         Invited testimony was heard regarding committee interim charges  
         1 and 8. 
          
         Public testimony was heard regarding committee interim charges 1  
         and 8. 
          
         The chairman postponed testimony regarding committee interim  
         charge 4. 
          
         There being no further business, at 1:45 p.m. Senator Whitmire  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator John Whitmire, Chair 
          
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         Ashley Horn, Clerk