The House Committee on Appropriations-S/C on Education 
         78th Legislature 
         February 12, 2003 
         8:00 a.m. 
         JHR, 140 
          
         Pursuant to a notice posted on February 7, 2003, the House  
         Committee on Appropriations-S/C on Education met in a public  
         hearing and was called to order by the chair, Representative  
         Pitts, at 8:05 a.m. 
          
         The roll was answered as follows: 
          
         Present:  Representatives Pitts; Brown, Fred; Deshotel;  
                   Gutierrez; Menendez (5). 
          
         Absent:   Representative Branch (1). 
          
         A quorum was present. 
          
         Testimony was taken.  (See attached witness list.) 
          
         (Representative Branch now present.) 
          
         At 9:45 a.m., on the motion of the chair and without objection,  
         the meeting was adjourned until 8:00 a.m., February 13, 2003. 
          
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         Rep. Pitts, Chair 
          
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         Jess Calvert, Clerk