** REVISION ** SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Transportation & Homeland Security TIME & DATE: 8:00AM, Wednesday, April 27, 2005 PLACE: E1.016 CHAIR: Senator Todd Staples ___________________________________________________________________________ To consider the following: SB 499 West, Royce Relating to the designation of the portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Dallas and Tarrant Counties as the President William Jefferson Clinton Highway. SB 696 Ogden Relating to testing and examination fee requirements for persons completing certain driver education courses. SB 808 Averitt Relating to the condemnation of certain property for railroad purposes. SB 1699 Averitt Relating to the acquisition of real property interests for transportation projects by the Texas Transportation Commission. SB 1818 Janek / et al. Relating to the improvement and coordination of statewide efforts to detect, prepare for, and respond to certain emergencies. HB 87 Reyna SP: Madla Relating to the authority of a municipality to alter speed limits in an urban district within the municipality. HB 160 McCall SP: Wentworth Relating to motor vehicles equipped with recording devices. HB 540 Bohac SP: Lindsay Relating to the designation of the portion of U.S. Highway 290 inside Harris County as the Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway. HB 749 Jones, Delwin SP: Duncan Relating to size and weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural products and equipment. HB 874 Kuempel SP: Wentworth Relating to designating a portion of State Highway 123 as the Senator John Traeger Memorial Highway. Pending business: SB 322 Staples Relating to proceeds from the sale of certain state surplus and salvage personal property. SB 859 Ellis / et al. Relating to a motor vehicle passing a bicyclist; providing penalties. 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. 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. ___________________________________________________________________________ BILLS DELETED AFTER LAST POSTING: SB 1762