** REVISION **
                                   SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Jurisprudence

TIME & DATE:  3:30PM or upon adjournment
             Monday, April 12, 1999

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator Rodney Ellis

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To consider the following:


SB 263            Duncan
Relating to the assignment of certain retired or former judges as
visiting judges.

SB 265            Duncan
Relating to the temporary assignment of a district court judge to a
court of appeals.

SB 368            Harris
Relating to court-ordered child support, including the child
support enforcement functions of the Office of the Attorney General
and the sunset review of those functions.

SB 412            Duncan
Relating to the abolition of the Judicial Districts Board.

SB 436            Nixon, Drew
Relating to a disclosure required in certain offers by mail to
purchase mineral interests.

SB 851            Shapleigh
Relating to an application for issuance of a subpoena.

SB 915            Wentworth
Relating to the composition of certain court of appeals districts.

SB 994            Lindsay
Relating to administration and funding of children's advocacy
centers.

SB 1187            Armbrister
Relating to the Judicial and Court Personnel Training Fund.

SB 1436            Duncan
Relating to the authority of a judge to hear pretrial matters in a
county other than the one in which the suit is filed.

SB 1706            Ellis, Rodney
Relating to money paid into the registry of courts in certain
populous counties.

SJR 20            Duncan
Proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish the Judicial
Districts Board.

SCR 33            Ratliff
Granting Gibson Recycling, Inc., permission to sue the state and
the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.

HB 777            Thompson                 SP: Wentworth
Relating to the jurisdiction of a statutory probate court in
certain guardianship matters.

HB 797            Thompson                 SP: Harris
Relating to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement
Act.

HB 1136            Thompson                 SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to fees charged for certain services performed by county
clerks in a pending probate action.

HB 1142            Thompson                 SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to records of probate and guardianship proceedings.

HB 1348            Goodman                  SP: Harris
Relating to the classification of certain child support claims
against the estate of a decedent.

HB 1605            Thompson                 SP: Wentworth
Relating to the transfer of cases by statutory probate courts.

SCR 18            Nixon, Drew
Granting Anderson Columbia Environmental, Inc., permission to sue
the state and the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.


SB 1011            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to contracting by court reporters; providing a criminal
penalty.

SB 1366            Harris
Relating to court reporting firms.

PENDING BUSINESS:


SB 1230            Ellis, Rodney
Relating to the procedures governing the prosecution and
administration of misdemeanor offenses in the jurisdiction of the
justice and municipal courts.

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BILLS ADDED AFTER LAST POSTING:

SB 1011
SB 1366