SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM or upon adjournment
             Wednesday, April 28, 1999

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator Kenneth Armbrister

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I.   Call to Order
II.  Roll Call
III. Consideration of the Following:

SB 999            Wentworth
Relating to making certain affidavits required for the issuance of
search warrants available for public inspection.

SB 1218            Moncrief
Relating to the prosecution of and the punishment for certain
offenses involving damage or destruction of property.

SB 1224            Shapiro
Relating to sex offender registration and to provisions of the sex
offender registration law for which a person who is in
noncompliance commits a criminal offense.

SB 1275            Wentworth
Relating to the statute of limitations for purposes of prosecuting
certain felony sex offenses.

SB 1766            Barrientos
Relating to commission of peace officers at the Texas School for
the Deaf.

SB 1830            Shapiro
Relating to the prosecution and punishment of certain domestic
violence offenses.

HB 88            Gutierrez                SP: Duncan
Relating to permitting a county to donate money to certain crime
prevention organizations.

HB 436            Turner, Bob              SP: Duncan
Relating to the criminal offense of trespass on agricultural lands.

HB 525            McReynolds               SP: Nixon, Drew
Relating to granting limited state law enforcement authority to
special agents and law enforcement officers of the United States
Forest Service.

HB 592            Goolsby                  SP: Armbrister
Relating to a background check of a person who applies for
certification as a qualified handgun instructor.

HB 605            Greenberg                SP: Armbrister
Relating to reports regarding a missing child or missing person and
to the responsibility of local law enforcement to investigate
certain missing person reports; creating an offense.

HB 788            Capelo                   SP: Whitmire
Relating to the electronic transmission of certain information to
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

HB 854            Capelo                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to the identification of certain persons confined by the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice who are subject to a warrant.

HB 924            Craddick                 SP: Bivins
Relating to the offense of operation of a vehicle with an expired
license plate.

HB 1063            Pickett                  SP: Shapleigh
Relating to the imposition of a graffiti eradication fee on certain
persons in juvenile court.

HB 1121            Counts                   SP: Duncan
Relating to the law enforcement authority of certain investigators
acting outside their county of jurisdiction.

HB 1269            Goodman                  SP: Shapiro
Relating to the mandatory detention of a juvenile for allegedly
engaging in certain conduct.

Pending Business:


SB 25            Nelson
Relating to the eligibility of certain offenders for release on
parole or mandatory supervision.

SB 38            Lucio
Relating to the punishment for a capital offense.

SB 302            Lucio
Relating to the civil and criminal consequences of operating a
motor vehicle, a watercraft, or an aircraft while intoxicated.

SB 452            Armbrister
Relating to the imposition of a cost of court on criminal
convictions and the creation of a fund for the payment of
extraordinary costs of prosecution in certain counties.

SB 559            Lucio
Relating to the punishment for the offense of injury to a child.

SB 634            Madla
Relating to the reporting of criminal justice statistics.

SB 784            Moncrief
Relating to establishing a procedure to prevent the fraudulent use of an
individual's identification to frustrate proper law enforcement.

SB 1123            Armbrister
Relating to the punishment for assaults committed against certain
sports officials.

SB 1189            Luna, Gregory
Relating to the waiver of a trial by jury.

SB 1281            Wentworth
Relating to a requirement that the photographs of certain sex
offenders be published in a newspaper.

SR 392            Moncrief
Directing the Texas Council on Offenders with Mental Impairments to conduct
a study on strategies to reduce the use of jails as a mental health
treatment provider.

IV.  Other Business
V.   Adjourn / Recess




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