** REVISION **
                                   SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Finance

TIME & DATE:  9:30AM, Saturday, May 13, 2006

PLACE: E1.036

CHAIR: Senator Steve Ogden

This meeting has been cancelled.

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To consider the following:


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 23            Williams / et al.
Relating to the costs of damages to Lamar University and its
related institutions caused by Hurricane Rita; making an
appropriation.

SB 37            Wentworth / et al.
Relating to disclosure and use of sales price information for ad
valorem tax purposes.

SB 43            Barrientos
Relating to appropriating money to pay for a judgment rendered in
certain litigation.

SB 48            Brimer
Relating to authority of certain enterprise projects to receive
franchise tax credits for job creation and capital investment.

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 11            Ogden
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the continuation
of the constitutional appropriation of money to certain higher
education entities and for the allocation of income from the higher
education fund to those entities, and extending the period of
maturity for certain bonds and notes issued by those entities.

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 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.

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