SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Transportation & Homeland Security

TIME & DATE:  8:00AM, Wednesday, April 20, 2005

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator Todd Staples

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To consider the following:


SB 1375            Staples
Relating to the regulation of outdoor advertising.

SB 1474            Lindsay
Relating to bond requirements for privatized maintenance contracts.

SB 1713            Staples
Relating to the creation of a study commission on transportation
financing.

SB 1818            Janek / et al.
Relating to the improvement and coordination of statewide efforts
to detect, prepare for, and respond to certain emergencies.

SCR 10            Staples
Memorializing congress to include Texas' transportation priorities
in legislation to reauthorize TEA-21.

SCR 15            Janek
Requesting the Texas Department of Transportation to designate the
new causeway bridge connecting Galveston Island and the Texas
mainland as the Purple Heart Memorial Bridge.

HB 364            Hegar / et al.           SP: Brimer
Relating to an offense of possession of certain devices affecting
operation of a traffic-control signal.

HB 372            Jackson, Jim             SP: Brimer
Relating to the required use of towing safety chains on certain
vehicles.

HB 747            McReynolds               SP: Staples
Relating to the designation of the El Camino East/West Corridor.

Pending business:

SB 433            Wentworth
Relating to the authorization of airport authorities and the
issuance of bonds and exercise of eminent domain by the
authorities.

SB 1089            Madla
Relating to the Texas Department of Transportation providing
equipment and materials to counties for the repair and maintenance
of county roads.

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.

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