SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM Or upon adjournment
             Tuesday, May 17, 2005

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator Kenneth Armbrister

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CONSIDERATION OF THE FOLLOWING:

HB 473            West, George "Buddy"     SP: Armbrister
Relating to examinations for licenses to engage in certain
liquefied petroleum gas-related activities.

HB 474            West, George "Buddy"     SP: Armbrister
Relating to the duty of a gas utility to report certain
transactions to the Railroad Commission of Texas.

HB 1161            Farabee                  SP: Armbrister
Relating to the provision of certain information to owners of oil
or gas royalty interests by the Railroad Commission of Texas.

HB 1162            Farabee                  SP: Armbrister
Relating to the training, examination, and seminar attendance
requirements for applicants for or holders of licenses or
registrations to perform certain activities pertaining to
compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas.

HB 1208            Gattis                   SP: Ogden
Relating to a limitation on the use of eminent domain by certain
conservation and reclamation districts.

HB 1358            Flores                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to the jurisdiction of the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality over certain water supply or sewer service
corporations.

HB 1609            Chisum                   SP: Seliger
Relating to the allowed wastes and exemptions applicable to certain
municipal solid waste landfill units in arid areas.

HB 1644            Callegari                SP: Lindsay
Relating to the authority of a water control and improvement
district or a municipal utility district to enter into a contract
to convey property to another water district or water supply
corporation and the authority of a conservation and reclamation
district to acquire a certificate of convenience and necessity or
to acquire a facility or a right to use a facility.

HB 1981            Blake                    SP: Staples
Relating to the amount of the fee that the Pineywoods Groundwater
Conservation District may impose on a well.

HB 2037            Allen, Ray               SP: Seliger
Relating to the seizure and disposition of property for the offense
of hunting or fishing without landowner consent.

HB 2370            McReynolds               SP: Staples
Relating to the regulation of poultry facilities.

HB 2440            West, George "Buddy"     SP: Armbrister
Relating to the regulation by the Railroad Commission of Texas of
activities associated with multiple accumulations of hydrocarbons
from which production by commingling of hydrocarbons is authorized.

HB 3144            Hughes                   SP: Eltife
Relating to a prohibition on hunting on certain parts of Big Sandy
Creek in Wood County; providing penalties.

SB 1523            Zaffirini
Relating to air pollutant emissions from electric generating
facilities; providing for an administrative penalty.

SB 1629            Wentworth
Relating to goals for and certification of groundwater management
plans.

PENDING BUSINESS:

HB 1611            Chisum / et al.          SP: Armbrister
Relating to the use of money for the low-income vehicle repair
assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement program;
making an appropriation.

HB 2161            West, George "Buddy"     SP: Seliger
Relating to the power of the Railroad Commission of Texas to adopt
and enforce safety standards and practices applicable to the
transportation by pipeline of certain substances and to certain
pipeline facilities; imposing an administrative penalty.

HB 2622            Phillips                 SP: Estes
Relating to boating safety.

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