SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE:  8:30AM, Thursday, May 8, 1997

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator John Whitmire

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To take up and consider:

HB 195            Turner, Bob / et al.     SP: Carona
Relating to the punishment of theft committed against elderly
individuals.

HB 237            Goolsby                  SP: Ellis
Relating to the prosecution of failure to return public library
property as theft of service.

HB 438            Alvarado                 SP: Whitmire
Relating to the implementation of a controlled substances testing
program to be administered to inmates housed in facilities operated
by or under contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

HB 1233            Kubiak                   SP: Gallegos
Relating to the offense of furnishing alcohol to a minor.

HB 2561            Gallego                  SP: Moncrief
Relating to the administration of the Sexual Assault Prevention and
Crisis Service.

HB 2825            Place                    SP: Patterson, Jerry
Relating to the use of inmate and probationer labor for state
highway system projects.

HB 2827            Place                    SP: Duncan
Relating to procedures applicable to an investigation involving the
death of an inmate in the custody of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice or imprisoned in a facility operated by or under
contract with the department.

HB 2830            Place                    SP: Bivins
Relating to a statutory lien to secure the amount of restitution to
which a crime victim is entitled.

HB 3062            Hightower                SP: Whitmire
Relating to comprehensive revisions to Subchapter B, Chapter 56,
Code of Criminal Procedure, the Crime Victims' Compensation Act.

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