HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Business & Industry
SUBCOMMITTEE: Subcommittee on Binding Arbitration

TIME & DATE: 10:00AM, Wednesday, May 15, 2002

PLACE: E2.010

CHAIR: Rep. Burt R. Solomons

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The Subcommittee on Binding Arbitration will be meeting to hear invited and
public testimony on the following interim charge:

Review trends in the use of binding arbitration requirements in consumer
agreements, with special attention to transactions in which the consumer
has little or no bargaining power.

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