** REVISION ** SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Finance TIME & DATE: 5:30PM Or upon adj of Subcommittee Friday, May 12, 2006 PLACE: E1.036 CHAIR: Senator Steve Ogden ___________________________________________________________________________ To consider the following: SB 2 Averitt Relating to the ownership and use of carbon dioxide captured by a clean coal project. SB 6 Ogden Relating to certain tax legislation enacted by the 79th Legislature, 3rd Called Session. 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. SB 37 Wentworth / et al. Relating to disclosure and use of sales price information for ad valorem tax purposes. 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. HB 63 Pitts / et al. SP: Williams Relating to appropriations to pay for damages and disruptions suffered by Lamar University and its related institutions caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. HB 72 Berman SP: Deuell Relating to providing for an adjustment of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed by a school district on the residence homesteads of the elderly or disabled to reflect any change in the school district's tax rate and protecting a school district against the resulting loss in local revenue. HB 149 Chisum SP: Averitt Relating to the ownership and use of carbon dioxide captured by a clean coal project. HB 154 Luna SP: Lucio Relating to the administration of the Irma Rangel School of Pharmacy. HJR 26 Berman SP: Deuell Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for an adjustment of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for public school purposes on the residence homesteads of the elderly or disabled to reflect any change in the rate of those taxes. To possibly consider the Subcommittee Report on HB 153. ___________________________________________________________________________ BILLS ADDED AFTER LAST POSTING: HB 149