** 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. ___________________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________________