SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE:  9:00AM, Tuesday, February 25, 1997

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator John Whitmire

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To take up and consider:

SB 67            Moncrief
Relating to purchasing procedures used by the institutional
division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

SB 78            Ellis / et al.
Relating to punishment for the offense of arson.

SB 121            Bivins
Relating to the use of closed circuit television to enter a plea or
waive a right in a criminal case.

SB 160            Brown
Relating to prosecution of the offense of tampering with or
fabricating physical evidence.

SB 170            West, Royce
Relating to the rights of a victim of a delinquent child.

SB 174            Brown
Relating to a fee collected by a prosecutor for collecting and
processing a dishonored or forged check or similar sight order.

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