** REVISION ** SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Education TIME & DATE: 9:00AM, Wednesday, March 26, 1997 PLACE: E1.012 CHAIR: Senator Teel Bivins ___________________________________________________________________________ A public hearing to consider the following: SB 274 Lucio Relating to lower division curricula at The University of Texas at Brownsville. SB 517 Bivins Relating to the transportation of public school students. SB 583 Ratliff Relating to design-build projects for school districts. SB 806 Ogden Relating to compulsory student fees to support intercollegiate athletics at a public institution of higher education. SB 816 Truan Relating to the change of name of Corpus Christi State University to Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi and to eliminating certain obsolete provisions relating to the university. SB 1028 Sibley Relating to clarifying the name of the College of Dentistry component of The Texas A&M University System. SB 1044 Truan Relating to the change of the name of Texas A&I University to Texas A&M University--Kingsville. SB 1219 Patterson, Jerry Relating to the power of the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System to designate Texas A&M University at Galveston as a branch campus of Texas A&M University. SB 1577 Bivins Relating to public postsecondary technical and vocational education, to the programs, operation, and administration of the Texas State Technical College System, and to the transfer of certain centers operated by the system to certain junior colleges. Pending Business: SB 519 Bivins Relating to the number of charters for an open-enrollment charter school that the State Board of Education may grant. SB 1206 Bivins Relating to creation of a public education scholarship pilot program for children assigned to attend certain low-performing public schools. ___________________________________________________________________________ BILLS DELETED AFTER LAST POSTING: SB 853