** REVISION **
SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:
Finance
TIME & DATE:
10:00 AM, Wednesday, April 28, 2010
PLACE:
E1.036 (Finance Room)
CHAIR:
Senator Steve Ogden
The Senate Finance Committee will meet on April 28, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in
room E1.036 of the Capitol Extension.  The Committee will hear invited and
public testimony regarding the Committee's interim charge to
study the impact of recent hurricanes for which a federal disaster
declaration was issued on local economies. Examine the basis for the
distribution of federal dollars for hurricane cleanup across the state.
Review past methods of distribution, including those involving the Texas
Department of Housing and Community Affairs and the Office of Rural
Community Affairs. Develop policy and statutory recommendations to ensure
that the system of distribution is effective to address needs of the
various regions of the state in the event of future disasters.
 
Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks to 3
minutes.  If submitting written testimony, please provide 25 copies, with
your name on each copy, to the Committee during the hearing.
** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **