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Conference committee for SB 792 May 18, 2007 By Ben Wear, AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN Senate Bill 792 will go to a conference committee, Senate sponsor Tommy Williams said this morning. Williams said that with the House having added 20 amendments Thursday before passing the bill (including amendments to amendments), there was enough there that simply concurring with the House changes isn’t the right course. Was there anything in particular he or other senators had a problem with? After all, state Rep. Joe Pickett, D-El Paso, added two or three amendments Thursday that didn’t sit well with state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, also an El Paso Democrat. “You don’t know until you sit down and go through them,” Williams, R-The Woodlands, said today. “We’re of course going to accommodate our House colleagues anyway we can.” So, can the bill steam through conference and House and Senate votes in one day in time to beat an 11:59 p.m. deadline for Gov. Rick Perry to sign or veto a bill that SB 792 would replace? “It could,” Williams said, though he wasn’t bursting with certainty on that point. “Hope springs eternal this time of the session.”
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