HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Financial Institutions

TIME & DATE:  3:00PM, Monday, March 22, 1999

PLACE: E2.012

CHAIR: Rep. Kip Averitt

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To meet to consider the following:

HB 814            Jones, Jesse
Relating to the granting of pawnshop licenses and to public
notification of an application for a pawnshop license in certain
counties.

HB 1635            Hupp
Relating to disclosure in a contract for prepaid funeral benefits.

HB 1805            Dunnam
Relating to the exemption of insurance benefits from garnishment,
attachment, execution, or other seizure.

HB 1812            Counts
Relating to administration of bond and other programs by the
Veterans' Land Board.

HB 1915            Oliveira
Relating to developing, constructing, and improving highways that
provide access to international ports of entry along the
Texas-Mexico border.

HB 2779            Pitts
Relating to additional charges authorized for a qualified
commercial loan.

HB 2780            Pitts
Relating to the construction of definitions in state credit law.

HB 2781            Pitts
Relating to the definition of a qualified commercial loan.

HJR 2            Oliveira
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to
provide for the issuance of general obligation bonds to develop,
construct, and improve highways providing access to international
ports of entry along the Texas-Mexico border.


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