HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: State Affairs TIME & DATE: 8:00AM, Monday, April 11, 2005 PLACE: E2.010 CHAIR: Rep. David Swinford ___________________________________________________________________________ HB 317 Pena Relating to designating May 5 as Tejano Heritage Day. HB 424 Hughes Relating to the safety of hotel guests; providing penalties. HB 864 King, Phil / et al. Relating to the regulation of the cloning of human beings; providing penalties. HB 1372 Jones, Jesse Relating to the operation of lawn mowers; providing a penalty. HB 2381 Hegar Relating to posting on the Internet the notice of a meeting of the governing body of a county and certain districts and political subdivisions. HB 1684 Casteel Relating to excepting certain real property appraisal information from required disclosure under the public information law. HB 2466 Swinford Relating to recycling market development. HB 1949 Corte Relating to the adoption of a uniform commercial building code for use in the state. HB 2081 Paxton Relating to prohibiting the use of state money for research involving the destruction of human embryos. HB 1929 Woolley / et al. Relating to the use of certain human cells and tissue; providing penalties. HB 3076 Naishtat Relating to the establishment of the stem cell research program. HB 2469 Thompson Relating to research using human cells and tissues. HJR 71 Thompson Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, authorizing the issuance of bonds for the purposes of the institute, and prohibiting the legislature from prohibiting stem cell research. Bills relating to stem cell research will be heard after other new business, but may be heard prior to the committee recessing for the daily floor session. ___________________________________________________________________________