** REVISION ** SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Finance TIME & DATE: 10:30AM, Monday, April 24, 2006 PLACE: E1.036 CHAIR: Senator Steve Ogden ___________________________________________________________________________ To consider the following: SB 13 Duncan Relating to the state retirement contribution for public education employees; making an appropriation. SB 15 Ogden Relating to an appropriation for the Permanent Higher Education Fund under Section 17(i), Article VII, Texas Constitution. SB 16 Ogden Relating to supplemental state appropriations. SB 17 Barrientos Relating to increasing the minimum amount of the local option residence homestead exemption from ad valorem taxation by a taxing unit. SJR 8 Janek Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the governing body of a political subdivision to establish for purposes of ad valorem taxation by the political subdivision a limit on the maximum average annual percentage increase in the appraised value of residence homesteads in the political subdivision. SJR 9 Barrientos Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the minimum amount of the local option residence homestead exemption from ad valorem taxation by a political subdivision. SJR 10 Shapiro Proposing a constitutional amendment dedicating certain increases in state tax revenue to public education. ___________________________________________________________________________