MINUTES 
                                           
                            SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE 
                                Monday, June 7, 2004 
                                     1:00 p.m. 
                              Capitol Extension E1.030 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Finance was  
         held on Monday, June 7, 2004, in the Capitol Extension, Room  
         E1.030, at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Steve Ogden                     Senator Bob Deuell 
         Senator Judith Zaffirini                Senator John Whitmire 
         Senator Kip Averitt 
         Senator Gonzalo Barrientos 
         Senator Kim Brimer 
         Senator Robert Duncan 
         Senator Kyle Janek 
         Senator Jane Nelson 
         Senator Florence Shapiro 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
         Senator Todd Staples 
         Senator Royce West 
         Senator Tommy Williams 
                                           
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         A joint hearing of the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate  
         State Affairs Committee was held.  Chairmen Ogden and Duncan  
         shared presiding duties. 
          
         Senator Ogden called the Finance Committee to order at 1:00 p.m.   
         Senator Duncan called the State Affairs Committee to order at  
         1:00 p.m. 
          
         The Committee heard invited testimony on the Finance Committee's  
         interim charge relating to revisiting the rising health care  
         cost study of the 77th Legislature and the State Affairs  
         Committee's interim charge # 1.  Witnesses registering and  
         testifying on the interim charges are shown on the attached  
         list. 
          
         The clerk called a joint roll call of both Committees.  There  
         being a quorum of both Committees present, the following  
         business was transacted: 
         Senator Shapiro moved the adoption of the Senate State Affairs  
         Committee rules; without objection, it was so ordered. 
          
         Invited testimony resumed.   
  
         At 3:46 p.m., at the conclusion of the invited testimony  
         provided by the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M  
         University System, Senator Duncan moved that the Senate State  
         Affairs Committee stand recessed subject to the call of the  
         chair; without objection, it was so ordered. 
          
         The Senate Finance Committee continued hearing invited testimony  
         on correctional managed health care. 
          
         Senator Williams assumed the chair at 3:50 p.m. 
          
         Senator Duncan assumed the chair at  3:55 p.m. 
          
         Senator Zaffirini assumed the chair at 4:15 p.m. 
          
         Senator Ogden resumed the chair at 4:30 p.m. 
          
         There being no further business, at 4:40 p.m. Senator Ogden  
         moved that the Senate Finance Committee stand recessed until  
         8:00 a.m., June 8, 2004, in room E1.030; without objection, it  
         was so ordered. 
          
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         Senator Steve Ogden, Chair 
          
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         Amy Jeter, Clerk