** REVISION **
SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    State Affairs 

TIME & DATE:  9:00 AM, Wednesday, October 05, 2016 

PLACE:        E1.012 (Hearing Room) 
CHAIR:        Senator Joan Huffman 

Due to technical issues in the Senate Chamber, the State Affairs hearing will be held in committee hearing room E1.012.

The Senate Committee on State Affairs will meet to take up and consider the following interim charge:

· Review current ethics laws governing public officials and employees and recommend changes necessary to inspire the public’s confidence in a transparent and ethically principled government. Review public officials’ reporting requirements to the Texas Ethics Commission. Examine the categorization of ethics reporting violations and make recommendations to encourage accurate reporting and timely correction to inadvertent clerical errors.

Public testimony will be limited to 2 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please provide 15 copies to the Committee Clerk.

** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **