MINUTES

 

SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOMELAND SECURITY

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

8:00 a.m.

Omni Mandalay Hotel, Irving, Texa s

 

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Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule 11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security was held on Tuesday, August 12, 2008, in the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Irving, Texas.

 

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MEMBERS PRESENT:		MEMBERS ABSENT:
Senator John Carona Senator Kirk Watson Senator Kim Brimer Senator Robert Nichols Senator Florence Shapiro Senator Jeff Wentworth Senator Tommy Williams		Senator Rodney Ellis Senator Eliot Shapleigh

 

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The chair called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m.  There being a quorum present, the following business was transacted: 

 

The Committee received public and invited testimony related to interim study charges on Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Billboards.  Witnesses are shown on the attached list.

 

At 11:55 a.m. Senator Watson assumed the chair. 

 

There being no further business, at 12:00 p.m. Senator Watson moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered. 

 

 

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Senator John Carona, Chair

 

 

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Erika Akpan, Clerk