MINUTES 
                                           
           SENATE COMMITTEE ON SUBCOMMITTEE LEASE OF STATE WATER RIGHTS,  
                                        INT 
                            Wednesday, February 11, 2004 
                                     1:00 p.m. 
                                  Dell City, Texas 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on the Lease  
         of State Water Rights was held on Wednesday, February 11, 2004,  
         at Dell Telephone Cooperative in Dell City, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Frank Madla                     None 
         Senator Robert Duncan 
         Senator Troy Fraser 
         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 1:05 p.m.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted:   
          
         The Committee heard invited and public testimony regarding the  
         lease of state water rights.  Witnesses testifying and  
         registering on the issue are shown on the attached list. 
          
         There being no further business, at 5:25 p.m. Senator Madla  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the cal of  
         the chair.  Without objections, it was so ordered.