** REVISION **
                                   SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Finance
SUBCOMMITTEE: Tobacco Settlement Proceeds (Charge #3)

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM, Thursday, February 17, 2000

PLACE: E1.036

CHAIR: Senator Royce West

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I.   CALL TO ORDER

II.  INVITED TESTIMONY

     A.  John O'Brien and Mirna Gonzalez - Legislative Budget Board
           Overview of the expenditure of tobacco settlement proceeds
           by institutions of higher education


     B.  Institutions of Higher Education that received Tobacco
         Settlement Proceeds
           Statement of institution of higher education expenditure of
           tobacco settlement proceeds and priorities for the use of
           future tobacco settlement proceeds

           1.  Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
           2.  Baylor College of Medicine
           3.  Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
           4.  The University of Texas at El Paso
           5.  The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
               at Dallas
           6.  The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
           7.  The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
           8.  The University of Texas Health Science Center at
               San Antonio
           9.  Lower Rio Grande Valley Regional Academic Health Center
               (administered by the University of Texas Health Science
                Center at San Antonio)
           10. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
           11. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
           12. Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
           13. University of North Texas Health Science Center
               at Fort Worth
           14. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

III. PUBLIC TESTIMONY

IV.  RECESS

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