MINUTES 
                                           
                         SENATE COMMITTEE ON STATE AFFAIRS 
                              Monday, October 29, 2001 
                                     1:00 p.m. 
                                   Senate Chamber 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on State Affairs  
         was held on Monday, October 29, 2001, in the Senate Chamber at  
         Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Florence Shapiro                Senator Mario Gallegos,  
                                                 Jr. 
         Senator Carlos Truan                    Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
         Senator Kenneth Armbrister               
         Senator John Carona 
         Senator Troy Fraser 
         Senator Chris Harris 
         Senator Frank Madla 
                                           
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         The Chair called the meeting to order at 1:07 p.m.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted:   
          
         The Chair welcomed all members of the committee and made opening  
         remarks. 
          
         The Chair appointed a subcommittee, to be called Native American  
         Affairs, to study charge number four, examining the need to  
         establish a state agency or commission on Native American  
         Affairs.  The Chair appointed Senator Madla as chair of the  
         subcommittee.  Senator Armbrister and Senator Carona were  
         appointed members of the subcommittee.  The subcommittee will  
         hold their first committee hearing following the State Affairs  
         hearing today. 
          
         The Chair asked if there were any questions or changes to the  
         draft interim State Affairs rules.  There being no questions or  
         changes, Senator Truan moved adoption of the interim rules.   
         There being no objection, the rules were adopted. 
          
         The Chair discussed the proposed committee workplan for the  
         interim.  The Chair stated that the workplan was subject to  
         change. 
          
         After completing the committee's organizational business, the  
  
         Chair began discussion on charge number two which monitors  
         developments at the federal level relating to the  
         re-authorization of TEA-21 and the creation of new innovative  
         transportation financing techniques. 
          
         The Chair called invited testimony from the Texas Department of  
         Transportation.  
          
         The Chair opened public testimony on charge number two.   
         Witnesses registering on this charge are shown on the attached  
         list. Public testimony was closed, without objection, it was so  
         ordered. 
          
         There being no further business, at 2:39 p.m. the Chair moved  
         that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of the  
         Chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
         Senator Florence Shapiro, Chair                   Cindy S.  
         Hodges, Clerk