A second vote is to be held on Thursday on a separate bill enabling individual budget measures and the privatisation of specific state assets.

The Senate Banking Committee plans to hold hearings this week on a bill providing for such measures.

A year ago a City Council committee held a hearing on a bill that would ban the installation and use of audible car alarms.

What was going on was this: the Council's Governmental Operations Committee was holding a hearing on a bill clarifying a law it had already passed.

Change After 1986 Elections Hearings have been held on a bill that would tighten procedures for informing Congress about secret operations.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold hearings on a bill intended to spur the development of digital television.

The City Council held a full day of often emotional hearings on a bill that would effectively ban smoking in virtually all public places.

Congressional hearings were held in May of last year on a bill to codify the sanctions against Nigeria, but it never went to a vote.

State lawmakers are scheduled to hold a hearing Monday on a bill to rescind that order.

On Tuesday, California lawmakers will hold the first hearing on a bill that seeks to keep Internet users from receiving unsolicited commercial E-mail.