SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Business & Commerce

TIME & DATE: 10:00AM, Monday, May 3, 2004

PLACE: Betty King Committee Room

CHAIR: Senator Troy Fraser

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The Committee will meet to discuss Interim Charge #2 relating to
the current structure of Texas' usury laws in order to determine how
they are effected by federal law and how state law impacts new
economic development and job production in the State.

Invited and public testimony will be heard.

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