SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Transportation & Homeland Security TIME & DATE: 8:00 AM, Monday, March 30, 2009 PLACE: E1.016 (Hearing Room) CHAIR: Senator John Carona **If necessary, the Committee will reconvene 30 minutes after the Senate adjourns.** The Committee will meet to consider the following as new business: SB 129 Ellis Relating to the maximum speed limit for a neighborhood electric vehicle being operated on a street or highway. SB 161 Ellis Relating to specialty license plates supporting the Safe Routes to School Program. SB 488 Ellis | et al. Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in the vicinity of a vulnerable road user; providing penalties. SB 686 Davis, Wendy | et al. Relating to the installation of natural gas pipelines in controlled access highway rights-of-way. SB 896 Shapleigh Relating to the repeal of the driver responsibility program. SB 926 Huffman Relating to the imposition of a civil penalty against the owner of an authorized emergency vehicle for a violation recorded by a photographic traffic signal enforcement system. SB 970 Seliger Relating to the qualifications required of the executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation. SB 971 Seliger Relating to an interlocal contract for a relief highway route around certain municipalities. SB 1107 Shapiro Relating to the requirement that driver education curriculum include information regarding distractions while driving. SB 1218 Averitt Relating to the collection of data by the Texas Department of Transportation regarding bridge collapses. SB 1235 Davis, Wendy Relating to the issuance and use of temporary tags on vehicles.

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SB 1282 Williams Relating to the powers of certain freight rail districts. SB 1283 Williams Relating to the supervision by the Texas Department of Transportation of money appropriated by the federal government for the construction and maintenance of rail facilities. SB 1317 Wentworth Relating to education and examination requirements for the issuance of a driver's license to certain persons. SB 1356 Lucio Relating to a fee associated with the assignment of a vehicle identification number by the Texas Department of Transportation. SB 1357 Lucio Relating to a joint statement relating to the transfer of a motor vehicle as the result of a gift. SB 1389 Wentworth Relating to the penalty for the offense of reckless driving. SB 1392 Wentworth Relating to toll collection and enforcement. SB 1426 Williams Relating to the installation, operation, and maintenance of automatic license plate identification cameras on a highway. SB 1614 Wentworth Relating to the requirement that certain orders closing, abandoning, or vacating a county road be filed and indexed in the deed records of the county where the road is located. SB 1670 Nichols Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Transportation to Polk County. SB 1759 Watson Relating to the permanent registration of fleet vehicles. SB 1827 Huffman Relating to the private disposition of used motor vehicles at certain auto auctions conducted by independent motor vehicle dealers. SB 1923 Watson | et al. Relating to funding sources for the Texas rail relocation and improvement fund. SB 2015 Watson Relating to certain transit authorities. SB 2018 Watson Relating to neighborhood vehicles and golf carts.

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SJR 25 Harris | et al. Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring certain revenue collected by a public entity from the use of a tolled highway project in this state to be used only for transportation projects. At the Chairman's discretion, the Committee may also consider pending business. Those wishing to give public testimony should limit oral remarks to 2 minutes.  If submitting written testimony, please submit 15 copies, with your name and the corresponding bill number on each copy, to the Committee Staff at the hearing.