HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: State Affairs

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM, Monday, March 24, 1997

PLACE: E2.010

CHAIR: Rep. Steven Wolens

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HB 855            McClendon
Relating to creating the Office of Natural Resource Public Interest
Counsel; creating a criminal penalty.

HB 912            Hirschi
Relating to certain inherently unsafe products.

HB 1051            Gutierrez
Relating to requiring that proposed real property transactions
between governmental bodies must be deliberated in an open meeting.

HB 1072            Maxey / et al.
Relating to the regulation of retail stores.

HB 1127            Thompson
Relating to providing that the Railroad Commission of Texas be
governed by a single elected railroad commissioner.

HB 1132            Puente / et al.
Relating to creating the Office of Natural Resource Public Interest
Counsel; creating a criminal penalty.

HB 1209            Maxey
Relating to payments to vendors doing business with state
government.

HB 1216            Edwards
Relating to the creation and operation of the Texas Emancipation
Juneteenth Cultural and Historical Commission.

HB 1453            Turner, Sylvester / et al
Relating to the enforcement of certain laws prohibiting employment
discrimination by the Commission on Human Rights.

HB 1691            Eiland
Relating to enforcement of the Texas Fair Housing Practices Act.

HB 1729            Wise
Relating to furnishing printed copies of state publications
released only in an electronic format to the Texas State Library.

HB 1805            Greenberg / et al.
Relating to the methods used by state government to purchase
information resources technologies.

HB 2336            Wolens
Relating to the purchase of goods and services by the state and to
purchasing services provided by the state to local governments.

HB 2599            King
Relating to the methods used by state government to purchase
information resources technologies.

HB 3206            Wolens
Relating to the powers and duties of the General Services
Commission concerning state and federal surplus and salvage
property and to certain commission personnel.

HB 3207            Wolens
Relating to the regulation of political contributions and
expenditures and political advertising, the registration of
lobbyists, personal financial disclosure by certain holders of and
candidates for state office, and the publication of summaries of
opinions of the Texas Ethics Commission.

HJR 68            Thompson
Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide that the Railroad
Commission of Texas is governed by a single elected railroad
commissioner.

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