HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Higher Education TIME & DATE: 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess Wednesday, May 06, 2009 PLACE: E2.014 CHAIR: Rep. Dan Branch SB 1085 Shapleigh Relating to a report to the legislature and the Legislative Budget Board regarding funding for campuses of public institutions of higher education located outside the United States. SB 65 Zaffirini Relating to leave for junior college district or university system employees who are physically assaulted while on duty. HB 4528 Chavez Relating to the establishment of law school at the University of Texas at El Paso. SB 504 Ogden Relating to the use of land on the main campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. SB 1334 Hegar Relating to continuation of the intercollegiate athletics fee for students at Prairie View A&M University. HB 4049 Castro Relating to student Internet access to certain financial and academic information maintained by public institutions of higher education. HB 4050 Castro Relating to requiring general academic teaching institutions to offer personal financial literacy training. SB 194 Shapleigh Relating to a prohibition against certain activities by a person employed in the financial aid office of a public institution of higher education. SB 31 Zaffirini | et al. Relating to financial assistance for students who complete certain coursework at two-year public institutions of higher education. SB 44 Zaffirini Relating to the participation of undergraduate students in funding awarded under the advanced research program. SB 174 Shapiro | et al. Relating to online institution resumes for public institutions of higher education. SJR 35 Duncan | et al. Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the national research university fund to enable emerging research universities in this state to achieve national prominence as major research universities and transferring the balance of the higher education fund to the national research university fund. *Although written testimony will not be considered a part of the record, persons wishing to distribute handouts may do so by providing no fewer than 15 copies to the Committee Clerk when called to testify.