HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Border and International Affairs TIME & DATE: 8:00AM, Wednesday, April 9, 2003 PLACE: E1.014 CHAIR: Rep. Norma Chavez ___________________________________________________________________________ HB 2634 Quintanilla Relating to interest-free loans from the Texas Water Development Board for water districts in economically distressed areas. HB 2976 Chavez Relating to authorizing cooperative agreements between local, state, and federal governments and the United Mexican States to promote economic development and heritage tourism near the Rio Grande. HB 3282 Guillen Relating to the authority of certain counties to impose a hotel occupancy tax and to the rate of the tax. HB 3294 Chavez Relating to the membership of the Texas Transportation Commission. HCR 59 Chavez Requesting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation be directly involved in assisting the Mexican law enforcement authorities in their investigation of the brutal murders of women in Juarez, Mexico. ___________________________________________________________________________