HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Higher Education

TIME & DATE: upon final adjourn./recess
             Wednesday, April 9, 2003

PLACE: Reagan Building, Room 120

CHAIR: Rep. Geanie Morrison

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Consider the following:


HB 36            Luna
Relating to the annexation by certain junior college districts of
territory in a district's service area.

HB 1621            Flores
Relating to authorizing a public junior college to waive a portion
of the tuition and fees for a student enrolled in a course for
joint high school-junior college credit.

HB 1912            Wolens / et al.
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for The
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas to
finance biomedical research facilities and exempting the facilities
financed by the bonds from prior approval by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.

HB 1961            Luna
Relating to the name of Southwest Texas State University.

HB 2379            Hill
Relating to the recreational facility fee charged at The University
of Texas at Dallas.

HB 2393            Goodman / et al.
Relating to the governance and operation of The University of Texas
at Arlington.

HB 2447            Chavez
Relating to the regulation of time, place, and manner of speech in
a state institution of higher education.

HB 2457            Rangel / et al.
Relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Texas A&M
University--Kingsville.

HB 2522            Krusee
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for the
Southwest Texas State University Multi-Institution Teaching Center
to finance facilities to address the Central Texas high growth
corridor and exempting facilities financed by the bonds from prior
approval by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

HB 2555            Chavez
Relating to requiring a course in multicultural or gender studies
in baccalaureate degree programs at public institutions of higher
education.

HB 2574            Luna
Relating to extending the boundaries of a junior college district
to include territory in the district's service area.

HB 2752            Brown, Fred
Relating to the creation of nonprofit corporations to refund
outstanding student loan bonds.

HB 2915            Wise
Relating to a nonprofit corporation.

HB 3425            Lewis
Relating to an intercollegiate athletic fee for students at Prairie
View A&M University.

HB 3526            Hamric / et al.
Relating to the establishment of the research development fund to
promote research at certain institutions of higher education and to
the abolition of the Texas excellence fund and the university
research fund.

HB 2759            Wong
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for The
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center for biotechnology
research and development facilities.

HB 3350            Davis, John / et al.
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for the
University of Houston System.

HB 3351            Davis, John
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for The
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for the
replacement of research and academic facilities lost in Tropical
Storm Allison.

HJR 82            Goodman / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for the
continuation of funding for capital improvements and acquisitions
at The University of Texas at Arlington.

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