SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Border Affairs - Special

TIME & DATE:  8:00AM, Thursday, March 25, 1999

PLACE: Lt. Gov. Cmte. Room

CHAIR: Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.

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To consider the following:


SB 749            Shapleigh
Relating to the enforcement of weight limits for vehicles in a
port-of-entry between Texas and Mexico.

SB 1136            Shapleigh / et al.
Relating to a border commerce coordinator in the governor's office.

SB 304            Truan / et al.
Relating to coordinating colonia initiatives.

SB 630            Truan
Relating to the use by political subdivisions that receive state
financial assistance for water supply and sewer service projects in
economically distressed areas of the revenue from the operation of
those projects.

SB 715            Truan
Relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to set
performance standards for certain colonias contracts and to deny an
application for financial assistance or terminate a contract for inability
to perform.

SB 1284            Lucio
Relating to the creation and oversight of a colonia ombudsman
program in certain economically distressed areas.

SB 1410            Zaffirini
Relating to variances from platting requirements for already
existing subdivisions in certain counties when water and/or
wastewater services are being brought into those subdivisions.

SB 1411            Zaffirini
Relating to the provision of utility service in economically
distressed areas.

SB 1412            Zaffirini
Relating to the provision of plumbing services in certain
economically distressed areas.

SB 1503            Truan
Relating to certificates of public convenience and necessity to
provide water or sewer utility service to economically distressed
areas.

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