Minutes 
         Tuesday, May 19, 1998 
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            MINUTES 
          
                 SENATE INTERIM COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION 
                                    Room 108 
            Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. Health, Science and Technology  
                                    Building 
                        Texas State Technological College 
                           Loop 499 and Jasmine Street 
                             Harlingen, Texas  78550 
                              Tuesday, May 19, 1998 
                                   10:30 a.m. 
                                         
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.11, a public hearing of the Senate Interim Committee on  
         Public Information was held on Tuesday, May 19, 1998, in Room  
         108 of the Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. Health, Science and  
         Technology Building, Texas State Technological College,  
         Harlingen, Texas.   
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Jeff Wentworth                  Senator Kenneth  
                                                 Armbrister 
         Senator John Carona                     Senator Eliot  
                                                 Shapleigh 
                                                 Senator John Whitmire 
          
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              The Chair called the meeting to order at 10:30 a.m.  The  
         following business was transacted.  
          
              Senator Carona moved adoption of the minutes from the  
         last meeting.  Without objection, it was so ordered. 
          
              The committee heard invited testimony regarding the  
         interim charge to monitor the implementation of SB 1069 (75th  
         Legislative Session) and related matters, including public  
         disclosure of certain law enforcement records.  The following  
         person registered to testify on this issue: 
          
         Lyle Debolt, publisher, Valley Morning Star, representing  
         himself, the Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the Texas  
         Press Association. 
          
              The committee heard public testimony on the committee  
         charges.  
  
              The following people registered to testify on the  
         committee charges: 
         Brenda Lee Huerta, News Director, KGBT AM/FM and KIWW FM  
         radio. 
          
         Kevin Pagan, Assistant City Attorney, City of McAllen. 
          
         Jim Scheopner, Chief of Police, City of Harlingen. 
          
         Hadassah Schloss, Open Records Administrator, General Services  
         Commission. 
          
              There being no further business, at 11:30 a.m. Chairman  
         Wentworth moved that the committee stand recessed subject to  
         the call of the Chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered. 
          
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         Senator Jeff Wentworth, Chair 
          
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         Todd Baxter, Chief Clerk and General Counsel