HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Ways & Means

TIME & DATE: 10:00AM, Wednesday, August 30, 2000

PLACE: E2.012

CHAIR: Rep. Rene Oliveira

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The House Committee on Ways and Means will meet to take up its interim
charges to:

Study the economic impact of Internet commerce on state and local tax
revenues.  Monitor the activities and recommendations of the federal
Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce;

Review the tax exemptions and credits approved by the 76th Legislature,
including S.B. 441 and the emergency severance tax measures, and evaluate
their success in achieving legislative goals; and

Identify and list the specific changes to the tax structure that would:
(1) produce the most positive effect on gross state product;
(2) produce the most positive effect on the creation and retention of jobs
that pay a living wage;
(3) most benefit troubled or declining industries, such as agriculture and
oil production;
(4) promote enhanced tax equity, including mitigation of the regressivity
of the current tax structure; and
(5) address loopholes that permit certain classes of taxpayers to avoid
equitable taxation.

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