MINUTES 
                                           
                 SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE, SELECT 
                                Bivins Subcommittee 
                            Wednesday, November 7, 2001 
                                     10:00 a.m. 
                                  Amarillo, Texas 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Public School  
         Finance, Select was held on Wednesday, November 7, 2001, in   
         Amarillo, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Teel Bivins                     Senator Steve Ogden 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh                 Representative Harold  
                                                 Dutton, Jr. 
         Senator Leticia Van de Putte            Representative Scott  
         Hochberg 
         Representative Kent Grusendorf           
         Kent Caperton                            
         Will Davis                               
         Craig Foster                             
         David Thompson                           
          
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 10:15 a.m.  The  
         following business was transacted: 
          
         The Committee heard public testimony.  Witness list is attached. 
          
         There being no further business, Senator Bivins moved that the  
         Committee stand recessed subject to the call of the chair.   
         Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Teel Bivins, Chair 
          
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         Krissy Lilljedahl, Clerk