HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Economic Development

TIME & DATE: 10:30AM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Wednesday, February 28, 2001

PLACE: E2.028

CHAIR: Rep. Jim Solis

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The committee will meet to hear invited testimony by the Texas Department
of Agriculture on rural economic development.

The committee will also consider the following bills:


HB 218            Wise / et al.
Relating to the membership of a local workforce development board.

HB 230            Wise / et al.
Relating to priority status for the admission of certain veterans
to workforce development programs.

HB 300            Burnam
Relating to protection of an employee in the private sector who
reports certain activities; providing a civil penalty.

HB 694            Yarbrough
Relating to eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits of
certain sheltered workshop employees who are blind.

HB 925            Kitchen / et al.
Relating to the use of development corporations to improve local
telecommunications infrastructure.

HB 931            Solis, Jim
Relating to a coordinated economic development plan for the state.

HB 932            Solis, Jim
Relating to requiring a report from the comptroller about state and
local economic development activities and projects.

HB 1082            Thompson / et al.
Relating to a prohibition on employment discrimination in
compensation; providing penalties.

HB 1103            Yarbrough
Relating to an action by the Texas Workforce Commission to collect
certain debts of an acquired employer from the successor employer.

HB 1104            Yarbrough
Relating to employment classifications for unemployment purposes.

HB 1105            Yarbrough
Relating to the ineligibility of certain inmates to file wage
claims.

HB 1109            Goolsby / et al.
Relating to unemployment compensation contributions by certain
employers of domestic workers.

HB 1215            Pitts
Relating to the use of development corporations to improve local
telecommunications infrastructure.

HB 1243            Villarreal, Mike
Relating to monitoring by the Texas Workforce Commission of the
long-term employment history of certain former recipients of public
assistance.

HB 1425            Yarbrough
Relating to the enforcement of certain laws regarding unemployment
compensation.

HB 1439            McClendon / et al.
Relating to the creation of a municipal development corporation to
provide educational and job training; authorizing the imposition of
certain local taxes and the issuance of local bonds; providing an
administrative penalty.

HB 1873            Solis, Jim / et al.
Relating to grants by the Texas Workforce Commission to assist
economically disadvantaged persons enrolled in qualified
postsecondary career education programs.

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