HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Economic Development

TIME & DATE:  8:00AM, Wednesday, April 9, 2003

PLACE: E2.028

CHAIR: Rep. Jim Keffer

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HB 2171            Solomons
Relating to the continuation of the Council on Workforce and
Economic Competitiveness as the Texas Workforce Investment Council
and to the functions performed by the council.

HB 2170            Solomons
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Workforce
Commission.

HB 1496            Solomons
Relating to reduction in benefit fraud and claim overpayments in
unemployment compensation.

HB 453            Villarreal
Relating to a pilot program for early childhood teacher education
and retention.

HB 454            Villarreal
Relating to an evaluation of the system of child care subsidy
programs under the Child Care and Development Block Grant.

HB 2172            Chavez
Relating to the duties of the Texas Workforce Commission.

HB 826            Davis, Yvonne
Relating to the disposition of certain unclaimed wage payments.

HB 2391            Kolkhorst
Relating to the eligibility of certain areas of a municipality or
county to participate in certain economic development programs.

HB 2277            Morrison / et al.
Relating to community service programs under the National and
Community Service Act of 1990.

HB 2278            Morrison
Relating to the applicability of the exception to prosecution for
the offense of Abandoning or Endangering Child.

HB 1675            Menendez
Relating to an extension of the state law supporting the Olympic
and Pan American Games to cover the 2011 Pan American Games.

HB 2768            Woolley
Relating to facilitating and supporting the efforts of certain
municipalities to promote economic development by hosting the Pan
American Games, the Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final
Four, the NBA All Star Game, the MLB All Star Game, BCS Games, and
World Cup Soccer Games, and events and activities related to any of
the foregoing; authorizing certain municipalities and certain
counties to issue notes for payment of obligations incurred to bid
for, prepare for, and host any of the foregoing events.

HB 1684            Woolley
Relating to notice of a right to file a civil action under the
Texas Commission on Human Rights Act.

HB 3364            Isett
Relating to the requirement that certain franchise litigation be
brought in this state.

HB 3179            Homer
Relating to the elimination of certain membership requirements for
local workforce development boards and of certain programs
administered by those boards.

HB 2109            Keffer, Jim
Relating to the adoption of the 21st Century Technology College and
Careers Act.

HB 3324            Keffer, Jim
Relating to the issuance of financial obligations for the
unemployment compensation fund and revenue to support such
obligations.

HB 3325            Keffer, Jim
Relating to the creation and administration of the community
telecommunications alliance program.




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