SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM or upon adjournment
             Wednesday, May 5, 1999

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator Kenneth Armbrister

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I.     Call to Order
II.    Roll Call
III.   Consideration of the following:

HB 127            McClendon                SP: Armbrister
Relating to the participation of Texas Department of Criminal
Justice inmates in community service projects performed by state
agencies and local governments.

HB 128            McClendon                SP: Armbrister
Relating to participation of the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice in certain food bank programs.

HB 424            Turner, Bob              SP: Armbrister
Relating to the distribution of money to certain counties for the
payment of extraordinary costs of prosecution.

HB 681            Allen                    SP: Duncan
Relating to claims against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
for certain conduct of state prison inmates.

HB 912            Thompson                 SP: Whitmire
Relating to access to criminal history record information by a
domestic relations office for a social study or a commissioners
court for a county child welfare board member.

HB 1112            Ellis, Dan               SP: Ogden
Relating to law enforcement personnel of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice.

HB 1318            Lengefeld                SP: Armbrister
Relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice to manage inmate money and to the procedures for managing
inmate money.

HB 1363            Hawley                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice to Karnes County.

HB 1713            Ellis, Dan               SP: Ogden
Relating to the harassment of persons by individuals imprisoned or
confined in adult or juvenile correctional facilities; creating an
offense.

HB 1723            Lengefeld                SP: Sibley
Relating to consolidating the juvenile boards in Bosque, Comanche,
and Hamilton counties.

HB 1749            Van de Putte             SP: Armbrister
Relating to the sharing of information concerning juvenile
offenders.

HB 2593            Haggerty                 SP: Jackson
Relating to the prosecution of certain offenses related to taking
an alcoholic beverage into a correctional facility.

HB 2617            Bosse                    SP: Harris
Relating to the continuation of the Texas Board of Private
Investigators and Private Security Agencies as the Texas Commission
on Private Security and to the functions performed by that agency;
providing a penalty.

HB 2925            Bonnen                   SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to access to criminal history record information by a
municipality for certain background checks.

HB 3294            Goolsby                  SP: Armbrister
Relating to the sale of flags flown over the Capitol and similar
items.

SB 1885            Shapleigh
Relating to creating an offense for transporting an individual
under certain circumstances.

Pending Business:


SB 25            Nelson
Relating to the eligibility of certain offenders for release on
parole or mandatory supervision.

SB 38            Lucio
Relating to the punishment for a capital offense.

SB 302            Lucio
Relating to the civil and criminal consequences of operating a
motor vehicle, a watercraft, or an aircraft while intoxicated.

SB 452            Armbrister
Relating to the imposition of a cost of court on criminal
convictions and the creation of a fund for the payment of
extraordinary costs of prosecution in certain counties.

SB 559            Lucio
Relating to the punishment for the offense of injury to a child.

SB 634            Madla
Relating to the reporting of criminal justice statistics.

SB 784            Moncrief
Relating to establishing a procedure to prevent the fraudulent use of an
individual's identification to frustrate proper law enforcement.

SB 1123            Armbrister
Relating to the punishment for assaults committed against certain
sports officials.

SB 1189            Luna, Gregory
Relating to the waiver of a trial by jury.

SB 1218            Moncrief
Relating to the prosecution of and the punishment for certain
offenses involving damage or destruction of property.

SB 1281            Wentworth
Relating to a requirement that the photographs of certain sex
offenders be published in a newspaper.

SR 392            Moncrief
Directing the Texas Council on Offenders with Mental Impairments to conduct
a study on strategies to reduce the use of jails as a mental health
treatment provider.
IV.     Other Business
V.      Adjourn/Recess











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