MINUTES 
          
                    SENATE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 
                            Wednesday, April 28, 1999 
                                     4:10 pm 
                              Senator Sibley's Desk 
          
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.11, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Economic  
         Development was held on Wednesday, April 28, 1999 at Senator  
         Sibley's Desk, in the Senate Chamber, Austin, Texas.   
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator David Sibley, Chairman          Senator John Carona 
         Senator Kenneth Armbrister, Vice Chairman    Senator Troy  
                                                 Fraser 
         Senator Mike Jackson                    Senator John Whitmire 
         Senator Frank Madla 
          
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         The Chairman called the meeting to order at 4:10 pm.  There  
         being a quorum present, the following business was transacted.   
          
         Chairman Sibley referred the following bills to the  
         Subcommittee on Technology and Business Growth: 
          
              HB 23 by Goolsby / Armbrister 
              HB 2109 by Bonnen / Brown 
              SB 600 by Wentworth 
              SB 1696 by Ellis 
          
         There being no further business, at 4:11 pm Chairman Sibley  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the Chairman.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator David Sibley, Chairman 
          
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         Barbara Henderson, Clerk