HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Defense Affairs and State-Federal Relations TIME & DATE: 8:00AM, Thursday, April 24, 2003 PLACE: E2.010 CHAIR: Rep. Frank Corte ___________________________________________________________________________ The Committee will meet to hear the following bills: HB 3211 Heflin Relating to certain veterans' assistance programs. HB 80 Wise / et al. Relating to establishing a permanent fund for certain veterans' care purposes. HB 2540 Menendez Relating to granting a defense base development authority the power of eminent domain. HB 743 Hochberg Relating to paramilitary training organizations; providing criminal penalties. HB 3362 Corte Relating to the Texas State Guard. HCR 27 Ellis Conferring the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor on Colonel M. B. Etheredge. HCR 156 Noriega Memorializing congress to enact the Citizenship For America's Troops Act to allow citizenship through service in the U.S. Armed Forces. HCR 161 Isett Urging congress to change veterans' mortgage bonds to cover all veterans who have served on active duty. ___________________________________________________________________________