SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources,
           Subcommittee on Agriculture

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM, Thursday, March 25, 1999

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator Tom Haywood

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To consider the following:


SB 774            Lucio
Relating to payment of unemployment compensation tax contributions
by certain employers engaged in agriculture.

SB 992            Lucio
Relating to the handling and marketing of vegetables and  fruit and
to the payment of claims from the Produce Recovery  Fund.

SB 1028            Lucio
Relating to the promotion of Texas agricultural products; providing
a penalty.

SB 1241            Bivins
Relating to voting by members of an agricultural cooperative
marketing association.

SB 1429            Duncan
Relating to the amount charged for bounties for predatory animals.

SB 1430            Duncan
Relating to the administration of certain loan programs by the
Texas Agricultural Finance Authority and to the promotion of the
development of agriculture-related rural businesses.

SB 1532            Carona
Relating to the regulation of renderers.

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