HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: State Affairs TIME & DATE: 1:00PM, Monday, March 24, 1997 PLACE: E2.010 CHAIR: Rep. Steven Wolens ___________________________________________________________________________ HB 855 McClendon Relating to creating the Office of Natural Resource Public Interest Counsel; creating a criminal penalty. HB 912 Hirschi Relating to certain inherently unsafe products. HB 1051 Gutierrez Relating to requiring that proposed real property transactions between governmental bodies must be deliberated in an open meeting. HB 1072 Maxey / et al. Relating to the regulation of retail stores. HB 1127 Thompson Relating to providing that the Railroad Commission of Texas be governed by a single elected railroad commissioner. HB 1132 Puente / et al. Relating to creating the Office of Natural Resource Public Interest Counsel; creating a criminal penalty. HB 1209 Maxey Relating to payments to vendors doing business with state government. HB 1216 Edwards Relating to the creation and operation of the Texas Emancipation Juneteenth Cultural and Historical Commission. HB 1453 Turner, Sylvester / et al Relating to the enforcement of certain laws prohibiting employment discrimination by the Commission on Human Rights. HB 1691 Eiland Relating to enforcement of the Texas Fair Housing Practices Act. HB 1729 Wise Relating to furnishing printed copies of state publications released only in an electronic format to the Texas State Library. HB 1805 Greenberg / et al. Relating to the methods used by state government to purchase information resources technologies. HB 2336 Wolens Relating to the purchase of goods and services by the state and to purchasing services provided by the state to local governments. HB 2599 King Relating to the methods used by state government to purchase information resources technologies. HB 3206 Wolens Relating to the powers and duties of the General Services Commission concerning state and federal surplus and salvage property and to certain commission personnel. HB 3207 Wolens Relating to the regulation of political contributions and expenditures and political advertising, the registration of lobbyists, personal financial disclosure by certain holders of and candidates for state office, and the publication of summaries of opinions of the Texas Ethics Commission. HJR 68 Thompson Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide that the Railroad Commission of Texas is governed by a single elected railroad commissioner. ___________________________________________________________________________