HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Judicial Affairs

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Monday, May 14, 2001

PLACE: E2.028

CHAIR: Rep. Senfronia Thompson

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SB 124            Shapiro
Relating to electronic reporting of political contributions and
expenditures for certain candidates and officeholders.

SB 129            Duncan
Relating to the appointment and nonpartisan retention or rejection
of appellate justices and judges and to elimination of a
straight-party vote in connection with district judges.

SB 194            Shapiro
Relating to the creation, jurisdiction, and administration of the
Probate Court No. 1 of Collin County and to the administration of
the county courts at law of Collin County.

SB 625            Duncan
Relating to the electronic storage of records by the court of
criminal appeals.

SB 720            West, Royce
Relating to regulating certain political contributions made by
judicial candidates and officeholders.

SB 822            West, Royce
Relating to the regulation of political contributions to judicial
candidates and officeholders.

SB 847            Nelson
Relating to the creation of municipal courts of record in Westlake
located in Tarrant and Denton counties.

SB 869            Lindsay
Relating to incapacitated persons, wards, and proposed wards.

SB 909            Shapiro
Relating to associate judges appointed by certain district courts
in Dallas County.

SB 1001            Zaffirini
Relating to the authority of a judge of a district court to hear
certain matters at a correctional facility.

SB 1377            Armbrister
Relating to the authority of the state auditor to review the use of
money collected as court costs.

SB 1378            Armbrister
Relating to criminal and civil fees.

SB 1379            Armbrister
Relating to the implementation of a change in law imposing or
changing the amount of certain court costs and fees.

SB 1434            Ogden
Relating to the appointment and duties of magistrates for certain
courts of Brazos County.

SB 1810            Sibley
Relating to the creation of a county court at law in Hood County.

SJR 3            Duncan
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for gubernatorial
appointment to fill vacancies in the offices of appellate justices
and judges and for nonpartisan retention elections for those
justices and judges.

SJR 49            Armbrister
Proposing a constitutional amendment to promote uniformity in the
collection, deposit, reporting, and remitting of civil and criminal
fees.

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