MINUTES 
                                           
                             Friday, September 19, 2003 
                           10:45 a.m. or upon adjournment 
                        Senator Ogden's Desk, Senate Chamber 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Infrastructure Development  
         and Security Committee was held on Friday, September 19, 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 Florence Shapiro 
         Senator Rodney Ellis 
         Senator Jon Lindsay 
         Senator Frank Madla 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
         Senator Jeff Wentworth 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 10:45 a.m.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted:   
          
         At 10:45 a.m. Senator Shapleigh assumed the chair. 
          
         The chair laid out HCR 11, urging U.S. 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 11 be reported favorably to the Senate with the  
         recommendation that it do pass and be printed.  The motion  
         carried with a record vote of 7 ayes, 0 nay, 0 present not  
         voting, and 2 absent.   
          
         The chair laid out HB 2, relating to the construction,  
         acquisition, financing, maintenance, management, operation,  
         ownership, and control of transportation facilities and the  
         progress, improvement, policing, and safety of transportation in  
         the state; making appropriations, and recognized the Senate  
         sponsor, Senator Ogden, to explain the bill. Senator Ogden moved  
         that HB 2 be reported favorably to the Senate with the  
         recommendation that it do pass and be printed.  The motion  
         carried with a record vote of 7 ayes, 0 nay, 0 present not  
         voting, and 2 absent.   
          
         At 10:47 a.m. Senator Ogden resumed the chair.   
          
         There being no further business, at 10:47 a.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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         Amy Jeter, Clerk