MINUTES 
                                           
                    JOINT INTERIM COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION 
                               Monday, March 22, 2004 
                                     9:00 a.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 Joint Interim Committee on Higher  
         Education was held on Monday, March 22, 2004, in the Capitol  
         Extension E1.030, at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Florence Shapiro                Senator Robert Duncan 
         Senator Kip Averitt                     Representative Roberto  
         Gutierrez 
         Senator Kyle Janek                      Martin Basaldua 
         Senator Royce West                      Robert Shepard 
         Senator Judith Zaffirini                 
         Representative Geanie Morrison           
         Representative Fred Brown                
         Representative Tony Goolsby 
         Representative Lois Kolkhorst            
         Representative Sylvester Turner          
         Jerry Farrington 
         Jodie Jiles                              
                                           
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         (Senator Shapiro in the chair) 
          
         The chair called the meeting to order at 9:18 a.m.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted:   
          
         Witnesses testifying and registering on higher education  
         accountability are shown on the attached list.  
          
         At 10:21 a.m. Representative Morrison assumed the chair.  
          
         At 12:00 p.m. Senator Shapiro resumed the chair.   
          
         The chair moved that the public testimony be closed; without  
         objection, it was so ordered.    
          
         There being no further business, at 12:48 p.m. Senator Shapiro  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Florence Shapiro, Co-Chair           Representative  
         Geanie Morrison, Co-Chair 
          
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         Tara Korstad, Clerk