MINUTES
SENATE COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY
Thursday, October 28, 2004
1:00 p.m.
City Commission Chambers located at 1300 West Houston Avenue,
3rd Floor, McAllen, Texas
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Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule
11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on
Infrastructure Development and Security was held on Thursday,
October 28, 2004, in the City Commission Chambers located at
1300 West Houston Avenue, 3rd Floor, McAllen, Texas.
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MEMBERS PRESENT: MEMBERS ABSENT:
Senator Todd Staples Senator Gonzalo
Barrientos
Senator Jon Lindsay Senator Kim Brimer
Senator Jeff Wentworth Senator Rodney Ellis
Senator Frank Madla
Senator Florence Shapiro
Senator Eliot Shapleigh
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The Chairman called the meeting to order at 1:06 p.m. The
following business was transacted:
At 1:11 p.m., the Chairman laid out Infrastructure Development
and Security Interim Charges 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. He then
opened them to invited as well as public testimony. Witnesses
registering and/or testifying are shown on the attached list.
Senator Hinojosa, representing Texas Senate District 20, present
at 1:25 p.m.
At 3:40 p.m. Senator Wentworth assumed the chair.
At 3:42 p.m. Chairman Staples resumed the chair.
At 4:20 p.m. the Chairman asked if anyone present wished to
register and/or testify, none being heard, invited as well as
public testimony on interim charges 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 was
closed.
There being no further business, at 4:22 p.m. Chairman Staples
moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of
the chair. Without objection, it was so ordered.
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Senator Todd Staples, Chair
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Patricia Gajda, Clerk