SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Business & Commerce

TIME & DATE:  8:00AM, Tuesday, May 17, 2005

PLACE: Betty King Committee Room

CHAIR: Senator Troy Fraser

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To consider the following:

SB 1279            Armbrister
Relating to the registration and regulation of architects,
landscape architects, and interior designers.

HB 135            Solomons / et al.        SP: Harris
Relating to regulation of health spas.

HB 511            Hochberg                 SP: Van de Putte
Relating to the processing of consumer rebates.

HB 607            Giddings                 SP: Ellis
Relating to the delivery of blank check forms; providing a civil
penalty.

HB 628            Giddings                 SP: Ellis
Relating to debt collection after a consumer has filed a report
with a law enforcement agency.

HB 833            Gattis                   SP: Ogden
Relating to hours of sale for certain alcoholic beverages in
certain areas.

HB 1021            Giddings                 SP: Ellis
Relating to the right of first refusal in certain real estate
transactions.

HB 1799            Denny                    SP: Fraser
Relating to a transfer and nonsubstantive revision of laws
governing the holding of local option elections regarding alcoholic
beverages.

HB 1855            Giddings                 SP: Ellis
Relating to the deletion of certain electronic records concerning a
customer who issues a check; providing a civil penalty.

HB 1939            Ritter                   SP: Fraser
Relating to certain disqualifications for unemployment compensation
benefits for assigned employees of staff leasing services
companies.

HB 2218            McCall                   SP: Brimer
Relating to the regulation of money services businesses; providing
a penalty.

HB 2223            Giddings                 SP: Ellis
Relating to the making of a notation on and the processing of a
forged check by a financial institution.

HB 2267            Smith, Wayne             SP: Ellis
Relating to the powers of the Coastal Water Authority; providing
the authority to impose a tax; affecting the authority to issue
bonds.

HB 2273            Cook, Byron              SP: Fraser
Relating to the administration of the unemployment compensation
system by the Texas Workforce Commission.

HB 2451            Moreno, Joe E.           SP: Gallegos
Relating to the sale, service, and delivery of alcoholic beverages;
providing penalties.

HB 2526            Flores                   SP: Whitmire
Relating to the promotional activities of certain alcoholic
beverage license or permit holders.

HB 2581            Solomons                 SP: Armbrister
Relating to the regulation of a perpetual care cemetery and the
sale of interment rights in a mausoleum before completion of
construction.

HB 3250            Ritter                   SP: Fraser
Relating to the acquisition of unemployment compensation experience
after the transfer of an employing unit; providing penalties.

HB 3460            Baxter                   SP: Fraser
Relating to the interest rate to be paid on the deposits made by
customers of a water, electric, gas, or telephone utility.

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