SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM, Tuesday, May 6, 1997

PLACE: E1.028

CHAIR: Senator J.E. "Buster" Brown

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To consider the following:


SB 1814            Duncan
Relating to modifications of the Official Cotton Growers Boll
Weevil Eradication Foundation.

HCR 109            Cuellar                  SP: Truan
Memorializing Congress to direct the Federal Emergency Management
Agency to update federally designated flood zone maps every 10
years.

HB 473            Howard                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to the licensing of waste haulers by certain counties.

HB 776            Tillery                  SP: Cain
Relating to a municipal drainage utility system.

HB 1016            Puente                   SP: Madla
Relating to fees imposed for certain plans subject to Texas Natural
Resource Conservation Commission approval under the commission's
rules for the protection of the Edwards Aquifer.

HB 1145            Turner, Bob              SP: Fraser
Relating to labeling of bison and buffalo products and to the
exemption from ad valorem taxation of bison; providing a criminal
penalty.

HB 1206            Kuempel                  SP: Fraser
Relating to the composition of the Municipal Solid Waste Management
and Resource Recovery Advisory Council.

HB 2688            Cook                     SP: Lucio
Pertaining to the execution of documents on behalf of certain water
districts.

HB 2689            Cook                     SP: Lucio
Relating to estimates of, and delinquent assessments for,
maintenance and operating expenses in certain water districts.

HB 2851            Williams                 SP: Lindsay
Relating to the powers and duties of water supply corporations.

HB 2914            Stiles                   SP: Galloway, Michael
Relating to the conveyance by the General Land Office of the
state's interest in certain real property.

HB 3459            Chisum                   SP: Brown
Relating to environmental and health and safety audits; providing a
penalty.

Pending business:


SB 1820            Shapleigh
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
functions, operation, and financing of the Paseo del Este Municipal
Utility District; providing for the authorization of bonds and the
levy of taxes; providing civil penalties.

SB 1891            Fraser
Relating to the payment of a fee by commercial users to the
Railroad Commission of Texas for the purchase of oil and gas data
maintained in digital formats.

Subcommittee on Agriculture Report:


HB 2499            Patterson, L.P. "Pete" / SP: Haywood
Relating to the family farm and ranch finance program.

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