SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Education

TIME & DATE:  9:00AM, Thursday, March 29, 2001

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator Teel Bivins

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This will be the second in a series of hearings held by the Education
Committee with the goal of crafting a consensus plan for public school
employee health insurance.  The Committee will hear invited testimony.

For informational purposes, the following is a list of related bills that
have been heard in Committee:


SB 29            Zaffirini
Relating to the computation of benefits payable by the Teacher
Retirement System of Texas.

SB 127            Staples
Relating to a statewide group insurance program for employees and
retirees of school districts.

SB 135            Carona
Relating to a statewide group insurance program for employees and
retirees of school districts.

SB 178            Armbrister
Relating to a statewide group insurance program for employees and
retirees of certain public schools.

SB 273            Armbrister
Relating to systems and programs administered by the Teacher
Retirement System of Texas.

SB 474            Bernsen
Relating to service credit in the Teacher Retirement System of
Texas for accumulated personal or sick leave.

SB 490            Ellis, Rodney / et al.
Relating to the composition of the permanent school fund, the
available school fund, and the public school employee health
insurance fund and to transfers from the permanent school fund to
the available school fund and the public school employee health
insurance fund.

SJR 19            Ellis, Rodney
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the use of income
and appreciation of the permanent school fund.

SB 928            Shapleigh / et al.
Relating to a statewide group insurance program for employees and
retirees of certain public schools.

SJR 28            Shapleigh / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the provision of
group health benefits for active and retired public school
employees, distributions from the permanent school fund, and the
school employees primary health coverage fund.

SB 1021            Armbrister
Relating to a prescription drug benefit plan for active school
employees.

SB 1317            Staples
Relating to allowing certain retirees of the Teacher Retirement
System of Texas to be employed without losing  retirement benefits.

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