MINUTES 
                                           
              SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOMELAND SECURITY 
                               Tuesday, June 13, 2006 
                                     1:00 p.m. 
                    Intermodal Transportation Center, Fort Worth 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on  
         Transportation and Homeland Security was held on Tuesday, June  
         13, 2006, in the Intermodal Transportation Center, Fort Worth. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator John Carona                     Senator Gonzalo  
         Barrientos 
         Senator Kim Brimer                      Senator Kenneth  
         Armbrister 
         Senator Florence Shapiro                Senator Rodney Ellis 
         Senator Jeff Wentworth                  Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
                                                 Senator Tommy Williams 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m.  The  
         following business was transacted:   
          
         The committee received testimony related to comprehensive  
         development agreements, the Trans Texas Corridor, and Tower 55  
         (see witness list). 
          
         There being no further business, at 5:04 p.m. Senator Brimer  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
         _____________________________ 
         Senator John Carona, Chair 
          
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         Steven Polunsky, Committee Director