SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Transportation & Homeland Security TIME & DATE: 8:00AM, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 PLACE: E1.016 CHAIR: Senator Todd Staples ___________________________________________________________________________ To consider the following: SB 24 Zaffirini Relating to the creation of a donor education, awareness, and registry program and the establishment of an organ donor and tissue council. SB 153 Zaffirini Relating to use of safety belts and child passenger safety seat systems. SB 433 Wentworth Relating to the authorization of airport authorities and the issuance of bonds and exercise of eminent domain by the authorities. SB 642 Lucio Relating to offenses involving use of safety belts or a child passenger safety seat. SB 717 Eltife Relating to the definition of all-terrain vehicle in the motor vehicle registration law. SB 737 Brimer Relating to the prosecution of offenses involving the operating or loading of an overweight vehicle in violation of certain laws. SB 850 Shapleigh Relating to an exemption from the required payment of a motor vehicle registration renewal fee for certain military personnel. SB 859 Ellis Relating to a motor vehicle passing a bicyclist; providing penalties. SB 1336 Madla Relating to the sale or conveyance of the Presidio International Bridge. SB 1397 Ogden Relating to the imposition of a toll on a segment of highway for which the Texas Department of Transportation has spent public money. SB 1624 Lindsay Relating to the creation of freight rail districts; granting authority to issue bonds or other similar obligations to create public debt; granting the power of eminent domain. SB 1670 Staples Relating to a motor vehicle financial responsibility verification program; providing a penalty. SB 1706 Staples Relating to the construction, acquisition, financing, maintenance, management, operation, ownership, and control of transportation facilities and the progress, improvement, policing, and safety of transportation in this state. SB 1712 Staples / et al. Relating to the administration and use of the Texas rail relocation and improvement fund and the issuance of obligations for financing the relocation, construction, reconstruction, acquisition, improvement, rehabilitation, and expansion of rail facilities. SJR 41 Staples / et al. Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the Texas rail relocation and improvement fund and authorizing grants of money and issuance of obligations for financing the relocation, construction, reconstruction, acquisition, improvement, rehabilitation, and expansion of rail facilities. Pending Business: SB 292 Carona Relating to the fee for reinstatement or issuance of a driver's license following a license suspension or denial for failure to pass a test for intoxication. SB 1073 Staples Relating to the issuance of a temporary tag for use on an unregistered motor vehicle. SB 1251 Brimer Relating to the acquisition, construction, maintenance, operation, and provision of toll facilities and a transit system by a regional mobility authority, and the transfer to a regional mobility authority of the toll facilities, transit system, and related assets of a regional tollway authority or transit provider or of certain counties; providing criminal penalties; authorizing a tax. ___________________________________________________________________________