MINUTES 
                                           
                      SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS & COMMERCE 
                                           
                              Thursday, March 1, 2001 
                     12:00 p.m. or 30 Minutes upon adjournment 
                                   Senate Chamber 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a joint public hearing of the Senate Committee on  
         Business and Commerce and Senate Committee on Health and Human  
         Services was held on Thursday, March 1, 2001, in the Senate  
         Chamber at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                         
         Senator Troy Fraser                      
         Senator Mike Jackson                     
         Senator Leticia Van de Putte             
                                           
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         Senator Troy Fraser, the acting chairman, called the Senate  
         Committee on Business and Commerce to order, and Senator  
         Moncrief called the Senate Committee on Health and Human  
         Services to order at 1:25 p.m.  
          
         Senator Fraser and Senator Moncrief made opening statements and  
         announced that the purpose of the joint hearing was to hear  
         discussion and testimony on SB 11 by Senator Nelson. 
          
         Senator Fraser laid out SB 11 and recognized Senator Nelson to  
         explain the bill.  Senator Van de Putte sent up a committee  
         substitute and Senator Nelson explained the difference between  
         the substitute and the bill as filed. 
          
         Following a video presentation concerning issues relating to  
         privacy of medical records, the Chairman called for testimony on  
         SB 11.  The witnesses testifying and registering on the bill are  
         shown on the attached list. 
          
         At the conclusion of testimony and response to members'  
         questions, the Chairman advised that testimony would be left  
         open on SB 11.  At the author's request, SB 11 was left pending. 
          
         There being no further business to come before the Senate  
         Committee on Business and Commerce, at 6:17 p.m. Senator Van de  
         Putte moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the  
         call of the chairman.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
         There being no further business to come before the Senate  
         Committee on Health and Human Services, at 6:17 p.m. Senator  
         Moncrief 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