Relating to membership, compensation, powers, duties, and responsibilities of the State Commission for the Blind and to membership on the Texas Committee on Purchase of Blind-Made Produts and Services; relating to educational programs for the blind or visually handicapped; placing certain duties on the Central Education Agency, the Texas Library and Historical Commission, and the Texas School for the Blind; abolishing the Governor's Coordinating Office for the Visually Handicapped.

Chamber	Action	Comments	↓ Date ↑
S	Filed		04/10/1979
S	Read first time		04/10/1979
S	Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations		04/10/1979
S	Scheduled for public hearing on . . . . . .		04/17/1979
S	Considered by committee in public hearing		04/17/1979
S	Reported from committee favorably with amendments		04/18/1979
S	Rules suspended		04/23/1979
S	Read second time		04/23/1979
S	Amended		04/23/1979
S	Text of proposed amendment(s) recorded in journal		04/23/1979
S	Passed to engrossment		04/23/1979
S	Read third time		04/23/1979
S	Passed		04/23/1979
H	Received from the Senate		04/24/1979
H	Read first time		04/24/1979
H	Referred to Committee on State Affairs		04/24/1979
H	Considered by committee in formal meeting		05/03/1979
H	Reported from committee favorably with substitute		05/03/1979
H	Comm. report printed and sent to Committee on Calendars		05/09/1979
H	Sent to Local and Consent Calendar Committee		05/09/1979
H	Placed on daily Consent Calendar		05/18/1979
H	Read second time (committee substitute)		05/18/1979
H	Text of proposed amendment(s) recorded in Journal		05/18/1979
H	Passed to third reading as amended		05/18/1979
H	Member vote recorded in journal		05/18/1979
H	Read third time		05/19/1979
H	Passed		05/19/1979
S	House passage as amended reported		05/22/1979
S	Senate concurs in House amendments		05/23/1979
H	Senate concurrence in House amendments reported		05/23/1979
S	Signed in the Senate		05/25/1979
H	Signed in the House		05/25/1979
S	Sent to the Governor		05/25/1979
S	Signed by the Governor		05/31/1979
S	Effective immediately		05/31/1979

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