MINUTES 
                                           
                            SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE 
                              Wednesday, March 1, 2006 
                                     9:00 a.m. 
                           Capitol Extension, Room E1.036 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Finance was  
         held on Wednesday, March 1, 2006, in the Capitol Extension, Room  
         E1.036, at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Steve Ogden                     Senator Kip Averitt 
         Senator Judith Zaffirini                Senator Kim Brimer 
         Senator Bob Deuell                      Senator Robert Duncan 
         Senator Juan Hinojosa                   Senator Frank Madla 
         Senator Kyle Janek                      Senator Florence Shapiro 
         Senator Jane Nelson                     Senator Todd Staples 
         Senator John Whitmire                   Senator Royce West 
                                                 Senator Tommy Williams 
                                           
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         A joint hearing of the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate  
         Transportation and Homeland Security was held.  Chairmen Ogden  
         and Carona shared presiding duties. 
          
         Senator Ogden called the Finance Committee to order at 9:05 a.m.   
         Senator Carona called the Transportation and Homeland Security  
         Committee to order at 9:05 a.m. 
          
         The following business was transacted: 
          
         The Committee heard invited testimony on joint interim charges  
         #1 and #2.  Witnesses testifying and registering on the interim  
         charges are shown on the attached list. 
          
         The roll was called for the Committees. 
          
         The invited testimony resumed. 
          
         There being no public testimony, the interim charges were  
         closed. 
          
         There being no further business, at 11:17 a.m. Senator Ogden  
         moved that the Committees stand recessed subject to the call of  
  
         the chairs.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Steve Ogden, Chair 
          
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         Amy Jeter, Clerk