SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: International Relations and Trade

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM Or upon adjournment
             Friday, May 16, 2003

PLACE: Senator Lucio's Desk

CHAIR: Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.

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Senator Lucio suspended the 24-hour posting rule to take up and consider
the following business at his desk in the Senate Chamber.


SCR 55            Barrientos
Designating the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin as the Official Mexican and
Mexican American Art Museum of Texas.

PENDING BUSINESS:

HB 148            Solomons                 SP: West
Relating to the prohibition of the manufacture, sale, or possession
of a counterfeit disabled parking placard; providing penalties.

HB 177            McCall                   SP: West
Relating to the regulation of certain international matchmaking
organizations; providing a civil penalty.

HB 1653            Chavez                   SP: Lucio
Relating to approval of the construction of a bridge over the Rio
Grande.

HB 2975            Chavez                   SP: Lucio
Relating to the establishment of a pilot program by the Texas
Workforce Commission in the Texas-Mexico border region for
technology training of certain persons.

HB 3420            Garza                    SP: Madla
Relating to a set-aside for certain colonia access roadway projects
proposed by rural border counties.

HCR 59            Chavez                   SP: Shapleigh
Requesting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation be directly
involved in assisting the Mexican law enforcement authorities in
their investigation of the brutal murders of women in Juarez,
Mexico.

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