MINUTES 
                                           
              SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOMELAND SECURITY 
                                Monday, May 23, 2005 
                                     10:45 a.m. 
                      Betty King Committee Hearing Room, 2E.20 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on  
         Transportation and Homeland Security was held on Monday, May 23,  
         2005, in the Betty King Committee Hearing Room, 2E.20, at  
         Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Todd Staples                    Senator Rodney Ellis 
         Senator Gonzalo Barrientos              Senator Florence Shapiro 
         Senator Kim Brimer                      Senator Jeff Wentworth 
         Senator Jon Lindsay 
         Senator Frank Madla 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 11:05 a.m.  The  
         following business was transacted:   
          
         At 11:06 a.m. after a brief introduction of bills to be covered  
         the chair moved that the committee stand at ease until a quorum  
         could be established. 
          
         At 11:07 a.m. with a quorum present, the committee reconvened. 
          
         The chair laid out as pending business HB 649. Senator Shapleigh  
         sent up committee amendment 1 and moved adoption; without  
         objection, the amendment was adopted.  Senator Shapleigh moved  
         that HB 649, as amended, be reported back to the Senate with the  
         recommendation that it do pass and be printed.  The motion  
         carried with a record vote of 5 ayes, 0 nay, 0 present not  
         voting, and 4 absent.   
          
         At 11:08 a.m. the clerk called the roll. 
          
         The chair laid out as pending business HB 1546.  Senator  
         Shapleigh moved that HB 1546 be reported favorably to the Senate  
         with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed.  The  
         motion carried with a record vote of 6 ayes, 0 nay, 0 present  
         not voting, and 3 absent.   
          
         The chair laid out as pending business HJR 54.  Senator  
  
         Shapleigh moved that HJR 54 be reported favorably to the Senate  
         with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed.  The  
         motion carried with a record vote of 6 ayes, 0 nay, 0 present  
         not voting, and 3 absent.   
          
         The chair laid out as pending business HJR 79.  Senator Brimer  
         moved that HJR 79 be reported favorably to the Senate with the  
         recommendation that it do pass and be printed.  The motion  
         carried with a record vote of 5 ayes, 1 nay, 0 present not  
         voting, and 3 absent. 
          
         Senator Barrientos moved that all the bills passed by the  
         committee with the exception of HJR 79, be certified for the  
         local and uncontested calendar in the event that an emergency  
         local calendar is set; without objection, it was so ordered. 
          
         There being no further business, at 11:12 a.m. Senator Staples  
         moved that the committee be adjourned. Without objection, it was  
         so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Todd Staples, Chair 
          
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         Patricia Gajda, Clerk