** REVISION **
                                   SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Finance
SUBCOMMITTEE: Tobacco Settlement Proceeds-Interim Char

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM, Thursday, January 13, 2000

PLACE: E1.036

CHAIR: Senator Royce West

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I.   CALL TO ORDER

II.  INVITED TESTIMONY

     * John O'Brien - Legislative Budget Board
         Overview of the state's disbursement of tobacco settlement
         proceeds

     * James LeBas - Comptroller of Public Accounts
         Analysis of tobacco settlement proceed adjustments

     * Regina Martin - Legislative Budget Board
         Overview of the expenditure of tobacco settlement proceeds
         by state agencies

     * State Agencies that received Tobacco Settlement Proceeds
         Statement of state agency expenditure of tobacco settlement
         proceeds and priorities for the use of future tobacco
         settlement proceeds

           Texas Department of Health
           Center for Rural Health Initiatives
           Texas Health and Human Services Commission
           Texas Department of Human Services
           Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
           Texas Healthy Kids Fund/Corporation
           Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention

III. PUBLIC TESTIMONY

IV.  RECESS

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