MINUTES

 

SENATE COMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Thursday, June 5, 2008

10:00 a.m.

Capitol Extension, Room E1.016

 

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Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule 11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice was held on Thursday, June 5, 2008, in the Capitol Extension, Room E1.016, at Austin, Texas.

 

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MEMBERS PRESENT:		MEMBERS ABSENT:
Senator John Whitmire Senator Kel Seliger Senator Rodney Ellis Senator Glenn Hegar Senator Juan Hinojosa		Senator John Carona Senator Bob Deuell

 

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The chair called the meeting to order at 10:22 a.m.  There being a quorum present, the following business was transacted: 

 

The chair called invited testimony for committee interim charge 6, pertaining to the use of seized and forfeiture funds.

 

The chair called public testimony for committee interim charge 6.

 

The chair called invited testimony for the committee interim charge 7, pertaining to deferred adjudication.

 

The chair called invited testimony for the committee interim charge 10, pertaining to trying multiple defendants from the same transaction either separately or

jointly. 

 

The chair called public testimony for committee interim charges 7 and 10.

 

Witness testifying and registering on the charges are shown on the attached list.

 

There being no further business, at 3:35 p.m. Senator Whitmire moved that the Committee be adjourned. Without objection, it was so ordered. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator John Whitmire, Chair

 

 

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Terra James, Clerk