SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Transportation & Homeland Security TIME & DATE: 8:00 AM, Monday, April 06, 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 216 Carona Relating to the permissible uses of the state highway fund. SB 337 Deuell Relating to the designation of a segment of Interstate Highway 30 in Hunt County as the Martin Luther King, Jr., Freeway. SB 585 Carona Relating to standards of conduct and ethics policies for metropolitan planning organizations. SB 612 Shapleigh Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Department of Transportation related to rail facilities. SB 626 Carona Relating to the creation, organization, governance, duties, and functions of the Texas Department of Vehicles; providing a penalty. SB 883 Carona Relating to the use of the state highway fund to participate in the costs associated with a toll facility of a public or private entity. SB 897 Shapleigh Relating to certain reporting requirements in connection with the transportation of hazardous materials by a railroad company. SB 1351 Carona Relating to the terms of the members of the Texas Transportation Commission. SB 1353 Carona Relating to contract provisions in comprehensive development agreements. SB 1382 Carona Relating to the coordination of the planning, construction, operation, and maintenance of a statewide passenger rail system by the Texas Department of Transportation. SB 1383 Carona Relating to the creation and administration of the Texas Local Participation Transportation Program.

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SB 1510 West | et al. Relating to the authorization to designate and the designation of a portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Dallas County as the President Barack Obama Freeway. SB 1615 Wentworth Relating to the authorization of airport authorities and the issuance of bonds and the exercise of eminent domain by the authorities. SB 1745 Harris Relating to offenses involving boating safety and the disposition of fines for certain water safety offenses. SB 2017 Watson Relating to a public hearing held by the Texas Transportation Commission in connection with certain highway projects. SB 2028 Watson Relating to privately funded memorials honoring certain peace officers killed in the line of duty. SB 2041 Ellis | et al. Relating to requiring an applicant for a driver's license to demonstrate knowledge of motorists' rights and responsibilities in relation to bicyclists. SB 2052 Estes Relating to projects that may be undertaken by development corporations for the development, retention, or expansion of certain transportation facilities. SB 2058 Williams Relating to the Harris County Road Law. SB 2059 Williams Relating to the use of a public right-of-way by a telephone or telegraph corporation. SB 2095 Wentworth Relating to requiring a boater education course for certain operators of vessels. SB 2096 Wentworth Relating to the creation of and the powers of a comprehensive multimodal urban transportation authority. SB 2371 Carona Relating to the naming of the Texas Department of Public Safety Garland Laboratory in Garland as the Representative Fred Hill Center for Forensic Analysis. SB 2378 Nichols Relating to the purposes and designation of a transportation reinvestment zone. SJR 9 Carona Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the purposes for which revenue from taxes on motor fuels and lubricants may be used and authorizing the legislature to provide for automatic adjustments of the rates of motor fuels taxes. SJR 52 Davis, Wendy Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the expenditure of motor vehicle fuel taxes and registration fees for passenger rail, transit, and freight rail. At the Chairman's discretion, the Committee may also consider pending

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business. Those wishing to submit public testimony should limit oral remarks to 2 minutes.  If you wish to submit written testimony, please sumbit 15 copies, with your name and the corresponding bill number on each copy, to the Committee Staff at the hearing.