** REVISION **
                                   SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Public Information (Interim)

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM, Thursday, October 9, 1997

PLACE: Capitol Ext. Room E1.012

CHAIR: Senator Jeff Wentworth

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Organizational Meeting

I.   Call to Order

II.  To Consider and Vote on the Following:
       Committee Rules

III. Invited Testimony - Judicial Branch Exclusion from the Public
        Information Act

     Chief Justice Tom Phillips, Supreme Court of Texas
     Attorney General Dan Morales

IV.  Overview & Discussion of Legislation Delineated in Committee Charge:

SB 1069 (75th Legislative Session) relating to the release and use of
     certain personal information from motor vehicle records

HB 1718 (74th Legislative Session) relating to the revision of the
     open records law

V.   Public Testimony on Committee Charges

VI.  Other Business

VII. Recess

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