SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Veteran Affairs & Military Installations TIME & DATE: 10:30 AM or upon adjournment Thursday, March 26, 2009 PLACE: Senator Van de Putte's Desk CHAIR: Senator Leticia Van de Putte 24 hour posting rule suspended To be considered: SB 1075 Van de Putte Relating to the absence of a student from public school to visit with a parent who has been or will be deployed to a combat zone. SB 1408 Shapleigh Relating to compensation and employment benefits for members of the Texas State Guard called to state active duty. SB 1537 Van de Putte Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain military personnel and the spouses of certain deceased and missing military personnel. SCR 5 Averitt Designating the Texas Medal of Honor Memorial on the campus of Hill College in Hillsboro as the official State Memorial to Texas-Born Medal of Honor Recipients. SCR 21 Estes Urging the Texas congressional delegation to take action to prohibit the use of federal funds to transfer enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay to any facility in Texas or to build or modify facilities for any such enemy combatants in the state. SCR 22 Lucio | et al. Urging the Congress to reopen consideration of this case to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to World War I Hero Marcelino Serna.