HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Ways & Means

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM, Wednesday, March 24, 1999

PLACE: E2.014

CHAIR: Rep. Rene Oliveira

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HB 161            Wise
Relating to the tax appraisal of certain land owned or formerly
owned by honorably discharged veterans or their spouses and
designated for agricultural use.

HB 405            Palmer
Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation for certain
vacant land owned by a religious organization.

HB 453            Gutierrez
Relating to the appraisal for ad valorem taxation of an inventory
of commercial real property.

HB 541            Maxey
Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation for property of
an association of ambulatory health care centers.

HB 555            Hunter / et al.
Relating to the tax appraisal of certain land owned or formerly
owned by a veteran and designated for agricultural use.

HB 575            Pitts
Relating to the application for an exemption from ad valorem
taxation on the homestead of a person who is 65 or older.

HB 873            Hochberg
Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation for property of
certain nonprofit organizations while improvements are under
construction.

HB 958            Hope
Relating to the additional tax imposed if the use of land appraised
for ad valorem tax purposes as timberland changes.

HB 968            Alexander
Relating to the residence homestead exemption from ad valorem
taxation.

HB 1143            Garcia
Relating to restricting the authority of a taxing unit to impose ad
valorem taxes on motor vehicles.

HB 1449            Uher
Relating to the additional tax imposed on the change of use of
open-space or timber land.

HB 1978            Kuempel
Relating to exempting property owned by organizations that provide
support to elderly persons from ad valorem taxation.

HB 2014            Hilderbran
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property
owned by certain nonprofit county fair associations.

HB 2406            Cuellar
Relating to the exemption under the sales and use tax for property
exported beyond the territorial limits of the United States.

HB 2067            Marchant
Relating to the application of the franchise tax to banking
corporations and savings and loan associations.

HJR 4            Kuempel
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the exemption of
property owned by institutions of public charity, as defined by
general law, from ad valorem taxation.

HJR 23            Palmer
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature
to exempt from ad valorem taxation certain vacant land owned by a
church or other religious organization.

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