** REVISION **
SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE: Finance
TIME & DATE: 8:00AM, Thursday, May 22, 2003
PLACE: E1.036
CHAIR: Senator Teel Bivins
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All bills are eligible for both Thursday, May 22, and Friday, May 23.
It is the Chairman's intention to hear all bills on Thursday. In the
event that any of the bills are not considered on Thursday they will be
taken up on Friday.
To consider the following:
HB 2458 Krusee / et al. SP: Bivins
Relating to the collection of the motor fuel taxes; providing
penalties.
HB 3318 Luna SP: Bivins
Relating to the creation and re-creation of funds and accounts in
the state treasury, the allocation of revenue, the dedication and
rededication of revenue, and the exemption of unappropriated money
from use for general governmental purposes.
HB 3124 Truitt SP: Zaffirini
Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Rehabilitation
Commission.
HB 3125 Truitt SP: Zaffirini
Relating to certain programs provided by the Texas Commission for
the Blind.
HB 3305 Berman SP: Whitmire
Relating to ensuring cost savings in the operations of certain
governmental entities that provide criminal justice and public
safety services.
HB 3306 Berman SP: Duncan
Relating to statutory authority to reduce appropriations made by
the legislature to certain individuals and governmental entities.
HB 3378 Hope SP: Shapleigh
Relating to granting statutory authority to certain governmental
entities to reduce certain expenditures and to the operation of
certain funds.
HB 3441 Pickett SP: Staples
Relating to a reduction in expenditures of certain state
governmental entities, including changes affecting the Commission
on Human Rights, benefits under the state employees group benefits
program, attorney general's office, management of certain accounts
and funds, and certain election-related forms.
HB 3442 Pickett SP: Averitt
Relating to granting statutory authority to certain governmental
entities to reduce certain expenditures and to impose charges in
amounts sufficient to recover costs.
HB 3443 Pickett SP: Ogden
Relating to statutory authority for certain governmental entities
to take certain actions to permit the legislature to reduce
appropriations to those agencies.
HB 3459 Pitts SP: Bivins
Relating to fiscal matters involving certain governmental
educational entities, including public school finance, program
compliance monitoring by the Texas Education Agency, funding for
regional education service centers, amounts withheld from
compensatory education allotments, the public school technology
allotment, the accounting for the permanent school fund, refunding
of certain student loan bonds, funding for the higher education
fund, health insurance coverage provided by certain educational
entities, the uses of the telecommunications infrastructure fund,
and the regulation of driver education schools.
HB 2425 McCall SP: Duncan
Relating to state and certain local fiscal matters; making an
appropriation.
HB 136 Brown, Fred SP: Nelson
Relating to limiting the amount of county, municipal, or junior
college district ad valorem taxes that may be imposed on the
residence homesteads of the disabled and of the elderly and their
surviving spouses.
HB 216 Hamric SP: Van de Putte
Relating to the qualification of a disabled person for an exemption
from ad valorem taxation on the person's residence homestead.
HB 217 Hamric SP: Van de Putte
Relating to limiting the amount of school district ad valorem taxes
that may be imposed on the residence homestead of a disabled
person.
HB 703 Solomons SP: Janek
Relating to the property tax appraisal of property located in more
than one appraisal district.
HB 1125 Flores SP: Staples
Relating to the period for the redemption of a mineral interest
sold for unpaid ad valorem taxes at a tax sale.
HB 1278 Zedler SP: Janek
Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation for property
owned or used by a religious organization for purposes of expanding
a religious facility or constructing a new religious facility and
to municipal platting requirements and zoning regulations
applicable to certain property owned or used by a religious
organization.
HB 2726 Talton SP: Staples
Relating to authorizing an owner of inventory to waive the right to
have the inventory appraised for ad valorem tax purposes at the
price for which it would sell as a unit.
HJR 16 Brown, Fred SP: Nelson
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a county, a city
or town, or a junior college district to establish an ad valorem
tax freeze on residence homesteads of the disabled and of the
elderly and their spouses.
HJR 21 Hamric SP: Van de Putte
Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit an increase in the
total amount of school district ad valorem taxes that may be
imposed on the residence homestead of a disabled person.
HJR 51 Flores SP: Staples
Proposing a constitutional amendment to establish a two-year period
for the redemption of a mineral interest sold for unpaid ad valorem
taxes at a tax sale.
HJR 55 Zedler SP: Janek
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature
to exempt from ad valorem taxation property owned by a religious
organization that is leased for use as a school or that is owned
with the intent of expanding or constructing a religious facility.
HB 1082 Talton SP: Staples
Relating to the appraisal of property by appraisal districts.
HB 1941 Woolley SP: Janek
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for The
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for recovery
from Tropical Storm Allison and exempting the property and projects
financed by the bonds from prior approval by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.
HB 3208 Heflin SP: Averitt
Relating to the temporary provision of lump-sum payments to certain
retiring members of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
HB 3526 Hamric SP: Duncan
Relating to the establishment of the research development fund to
promote research at certain institutions of higher education and to
the abolition of the Texas excellence fund and the university
research fund.
Pending business:
HB 2292 Wohlgemuth SP: Nelson
Relating to the provision of health and human services in this
state, including the powers and duties of the Health and Human
Services Commission and other state agencies; providing penalties.
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SPONSORS CHANGED AFTER LAST POSTING:
HB 3441