SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Higher Education 

TIME & DATE:  9:00 AM, Wednesday, April 12, 2017 

PLACE:        E1.012 (Hearing Room) 
CHAIR:        Senator Kel Seliger 

SB 803        Seliger                
Relating to a study on the feasibility of requiring certain researchers to make research papers available to the public.

SB 1123       Zaffirini              
Relating to conditions on the receipt of tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for adopted students formerly in foster or other residential care.

SB 1225       Miles                  
Relating to eligibility requirements for the repayment of certain physician education loans.

SB 1781       West                   
Relating to the regulation of certain degree-granting postsecondary educational institutions by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; providing administrative penalties.

SB 2048       Bettencourt            
Relating to the student loan program administered by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and to the repeal of a related bond program.

Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks to 3 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please submit 20 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Committee during the hearing.

The Committee may also consider pending business.