MINUTES 
                                           
              SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOMELAND SECURITY 
                               Monday, March 21, 2005 
                           1:30 p.m. or upon adjournment 
                      Senate Chamber at Chairman Staples' desk 
                                           
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         Pursuant to suspension of Senate Rules 11.10, 11.18 and 11.13, a  
         public hearing of the Senate Committee on Transportation and  
         Homeland Security was held on Monday, March 21, 2005, in the  
         Senate Chamber at Chairman Staples' desk. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Todd Staples                    None 
         Senator Gonzalo Barrientos 
         Senator Kim Brimer 
         Senator Rodney Ellis 
         Senator Jon Lindsay 
         Senator Frank Madla 
         Senator Florence Shapiro 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
         Senator Jeff Wentworth 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 2:22 p.m.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted:   
          
         The chair laid out SB 125 and CSSB 125, which were both left  
         pending at the March 9, 2005 hearing. Senator Lindsay sent up a  
         committee substitute. Senator Staples moved adoption of the  
         committee substitute; without objection, it was so ordered.   
         Senator Lindsay moved that SB 125 do not pass but that CSSB 125  
         be reported back to the Senate with the recommendation that it  
         do pass and be printed.  The motion carried with a record vote  
         of 9 ayes, 0 nay, 0 present not voting, and 0 absent.  Senator  
         Lindsay moved that the bill be recommended for placement on the  
         Local & Uncontested Calendar; without objection, it was so  
         ordered.     
          
         The chair laid out, as pending business, SB 176. Senator Lindsay  
         sent up committee amendment 1 and moved adoption; without  
         objection, the amendment was adopted.  Senator Brimer requested  
         unanimous consent to roll the amendment into a committee  
         substitute; without objection, it was so ordered.  Senator  
         Brimer then moved that the committee substitute be adopted;  
         without objection, it was so ordered.  Senator Brimer moved that  
         SB 176 do not pass but that CSSB 176 be reported back to the  
         Senate with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed.   
  
         The motion carried with a record vote of 9 ayes, 0 nay, 0  
         present not voting, and 0 absent.  Senator Brimer moved that the  
         bill be recommended for placement on the Local & Uncontested  
         Calendar; without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
         There being no further business, at 2:26 p.m. Senator Staples  
         moved that the committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Todd Staples, Chair 
          
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         Patricia Gajda, Clerk