MINUTES 
                                           
                               Tuesday, July 22, 2003 
                           2:00 p.m. or upon adjournment 
                                   Senate Chamber 
                                Senator Ogden's Desk 
                                           
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         Pursuant to suspension of Senate Rule 11.18, a public hearing of  
         the Senate Infrastructure Development and Security Committee was  
         held on Tuesday, July 22, 2003, in the Senate Chamber at Senator  
         Ogden's desk at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Steve Ogden                     Senator Bob Deuell 
         Senator Gonzalo Barrientos              Senator Rodney Ellis 
         Senator Jon Lindsay                     Senator Frank Madla 
         Senator Florence Shapiro 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
         Senator Jeff Wentworth 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 2:12 p.m.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted: 
          
         At 2:13 p.m. Senator Wentworth assumed the chair.   
          
         The chair laid out HCR 12, memorializing the secretary of the  
         United States Department of Homeland Security to designate a  
         university-based center for homeland security in the State of  
         Texas and recognized the Senate sponsor, Senator Ogden, to  
         explain the bill.  Senator Ogden moved that HCR 12 be reported  
         favorably to the Senate with the recommendation that it do pass  
         and be printed.  The motion carried with a record vote of 6  
         ayes, 0 nay, 0 present not voting, and 3 absent.             
          
         At 1:15 p.m. Senator Ogden resumed the chair.   
          
         There being no further business, at 1:15 p.m. Senator Ogden  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Steve Ogden, Chair 
          
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         Patty Guerra, Clerk