HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Economic Development TIME & DATE: 8:00AM, Thursday, March 15, 2001 PLACE: E2.012 CHAIR: Rep. Jim Solis ___________________________________________________________________________ The committee will meet to consider the following bills: HB 762 Coleman Relating to requiring certain employers who contract with or receive financial assistance from the state or a state agency to pay its employees a living wage; providing a penalty. HB 856 Dutton Relating to the right of an employee to time off from work to participate in certain school activities of the employee's child; providing a penalty. HB 1309 Villarreal, Mike Relating to requirements applicable to child-care workers who receive scholarships funded by the federal Child Care Development Fund. HB 1761 Turner, Sylvester Relating to the right of an employee to time off from work to meet with certain persons affecting the education of the employee's child. HB 1931 Elkins Relating to certain disqualifications from eligibility for unemployment benefits. HB 1964 Seaman Relating to the creation of the spaceport trust fund. HB 1592 Kitchen / et al. Relating to a project of an industrial development corporation. HB 2074 Martinez Fischer Relating to a study of means to increase the supply of child care providers in this state. HB 2086 Yarbrough Relating to wages used to compute unemployment compensation taxes. HB 2213 Deshotel Relating to the adoption of an alternative base period for computation of unemployment compensation benefits. ___________________________________________________________________________