HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Ways & Means

TIME & DATE: 10:30AM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Wednesday, March 30, 2005

PLACE: E2.010

CHAIR: Rep. Jim Keffer

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HB 290            Chisum / et al.
Relating to the application of the motor vehicle sales tax
emissions reduction surcharge on certain motor homes.

HB 777            Casteel
Relating to the allocation of revenue from the state hotel tax for
certain purposes in certain municipalities located in counties in a
park and recreation district.

HB 917            Krusee
Relating to a credit or refund for diesel fuel taxes paid on diesel
fuel used in this state by auxiliary power units or power take-off
equipment.

HB 1185            Smithee
Relating to the extension of the period for which an incomplete
improvement on real property owned by a nonprofit organization for
use as a school may receive an exemption from ad valorem taxation.

HB 1528            Woolley / et al.
Relating to the expiration of the other events trust fund
established to support local efforts to recruit or retain certain
sports events.

HB 1766            Keffer, Jim
Relating to exemptions from and reductions to the gas production
tax.

HB 2040            Keffer, Jim
Relating to the confidentiality of photographs of certain
residential property held by an appraisal district.

HB 809            Hilderbran
Relating to excepting one passenger car or light truck owned by an
individual and used for the production of income from required
rendition for ad valorem tax purposes.

HB 1292            Hilderbran
Relating to the allocation and use of revenue from the sales tax
imposed on sporting goods.

HB 2328            Villarreal
Relating to a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that may
be imposed on the residence homesteads of certain elderly
individuals by a county.

HB 748            Smith, Wayne
Relating to the application of the sales tax and licensing fees to
professional land surveyors.

HB 2080            Paxton / et al.
Relating to the ad valorem tax status of a license to occupy a
dwelling unit in a tax-exempt retirement community.

HB 2187            Otto
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of rent-to-own
property not held by the lessee primarily to produce income and to
the method to be used to depreciate taxable rent-to-own property
for tax appraisal purposes.

HB 2657            Krusee
Relating to the collection of motor fuels taxes.

HB 2841            Chisum
Relating to the exemption from the sales and use tax for gas and
electricity used in manufacturing and processing.

HB 3222            Villarreal
Relating to the state administration of taxation.

HB 3252            Ritter
Relating to imposition of a fee to provide permanent funds for use
in the protection of the Texas coast, including Texas beaches.

HJR 41            Casteel
Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the state from
reducing the proportion of the costs paid by the state for a
function imposed by the state on political subdivisions; from
requiring political subdivisions to perform a new function or to
perform an existing function in a more costly way unless the state
pays for the new or additional costs; and from otherwise adopting a
law that requires the expenditure of money by a political
subdivision for any purpose unless state funding for the purpose is
provided.

HJR 65            Otto
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to
exempt from ad valorem taxation rent-to-own property not held by
the lessee primarily to produce income and to prescribe the method
to be used to depreciate taxable rent-to-own property for tax
appraisal purposes.

HJR 68            Villarreal
Proposing a constitutional amendment to permit a county to
establish an ad valorem tax freeze on the residence homesteads of
certain elderly persons.

HB 112            Wong
Relating to a tax credit for certain corporations for certain
purchases that promote healthy living for employees.

HB 1070            Wong
Relating to an exemption from the motor fuels tax for certain
kerosene.

HB 2784            Wong
Relating to the authority of a taxing unit to provide an additional
exemption from ad valorem taxation for property owned by certain
disabled veterans who have been awarded the Purple Heart or their
surviving spouses.

HB 726            Berman
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property
owned by certain law enforcement officer associations.

HJR 32            Berman
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to
exempt from ad valorem taxation property owned by certain law
enforcement officer associations.

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