SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Intergovernmental Relations

TIME & DATE:  8:30AM, Thursday, May 12, 2005

PLACE: Extension Auditorium

CHAIR: Senator Frank Madla

24-hour posting rule suspended

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Senator Madla moved to suspend the 24-hour posting rule so that the Senate
Committee on Intergovernmental Relations could meet today to take up and
consider the following bills:


SB 1894            Deuell
Relating to the creation of Kaufman County Water Control and Improvement
District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds;
granting the power of eminent domain.

SB 1896            Madla
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, operation, and
financing of the Val Verde County Groundwater Conservation District.

HB 132            Hilderbran               SP: Fraser
Relating to the rate of the county health services sales and use
tax.

HB 150            Reyna                    SP: Deuell
Relating to the eligibility of a person to be appointed to serve on
certain civil service commissions.

HB 167            Smith, Wayne             SP: Jackson, Mike
Relating to the use of the development project fund by a municipal
development district.

HB 233            Martinez                 SP: Lucio
Relating to the securing by municipal police officers of a scene to
which the municipality's emergency ambulance service responds.

HB 525            Rodriguez                SP: Barrientos
Relating to the creation of homestead preservation districts,
reinvestment zones, and other programs to increase home ownership
and provide affordable housing.

HB 571            Hegar                    SP: Janek
Relating to the establishment of auxiliary county facilities in the
unincorporated area of a county.

HB 585            Corte                    SP: Wentworth
Relating to the requirements for the incorporation of a
municipality in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain
existing municipalities.

HB 639            Bailey                   SP: Barrientos
Relating to complaints against certain peace officers, fire
fighters, detention officers, and county jailers.

HB 950            Casteel                  SP: Madla
Relating to fees for filing certain documents with a county clerk.

HB 961            Smith, Wayne             SP: Jackson, Mike
Relating to the location of a sale of real property under a
contract lien.

HB 1213            Harper-Brown             SP: Deuell
Relating to fitness incentive pay for certain fire fighters and
police officers.

HB 1267            Cook, Robby              SP: Armbrister
Relating to changing the name of the Texas Industrial Fire Training
Board to the Texas Industrial Emergency Services Board.

HB 1455            King, Tracy              SP: Madla
Relating to hospital and medical care required to be provided by
the Maverick County Hospital District.

HB 1587            West, George "Buddy"     SP: Seliger
Relating to liability and validation issues of the Downtown Midland
Management District.

HB 1599            Callegari                SP: Lindsay
Relating to a conservation and reclamation district's use of money
received under a contract with a municipality.

HB 1606            Thompson                 SP: Ellis
Relating to the level of municipal participation in contracts with
developers for public improvements.

HB 1835            Talton                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to the apportionment of municipal infrastructure costs in
regard to certain property development projects.

HB 1937            Ritter                   SP: Seliger
Relating to the authority of certain counties to create county
assistance districts for certain purposes.

HB 2374            McClendon                SP: Madla
Relating to the retirement system for firefighters and police
officers in certain municipalities.

HB 2457            Talton                   SP: Whitmire
Relating to the entrance requirements, base pay, and longevity pay
in certain municipalities for a police officer who has previous
experience as a police officer.

HB 2491            Puente                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to the administration and collection of ad valorem taxes,
including the transfer of an ad valorem tax lien and a contract for
foreclosure of an ad valorem tax lien; amending, correcting, and
clarifying the Tax Code, Property Code, and Civil Practice and
Remedies Code.

HB 2584            Hilderbran               SP: Fraser
Relating to the Kimble County Hospital District of Kimble County,
Texas.

HB 2587            Hilderbran               SP: Duncan
Relating to the Schleicher County Hospital District.

HCR 93            Cook, Robby              SP: Armbrister
Designating Schulenburg the Official Home of the Painted Churches
of Texas.

Bills Pending:

HB 265            Smith, Wayne             SP: Eltife
Relating to the time for processing a municipal building permit.

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