SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Finance TIME & DATE: 11:00 AM or upon adjournment Thursday, March 26, 2009 PLACE: E1.036 (Finance Room) CHAIR: Senator Steve Ogden To consider the following: SB 607 Uresti | et al. Relating to enrollment requirements for the operation of Texas A&M University--San Antonio as a general academic teaching institution and the issuance of bonds for that institution. SB 629 West, Royce Relating to the statutory limitation imposed on the University of North Texas System to issue revenue bonds to fund facilities at the University of North Texas Dallas Campus. SB 655 Fraser | et al. Relating to the statutory limitation imposed on certain university systems to issue revenue bonds to fund facilities at certain institutions of higher education. SB 792 Nelson Relating to the imposition of the sales and use tax by certain crime control and prevention districts and fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services districts. SB 947 Duncan Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of certain tangible personal property stored temporarily at a location in this state. SB 995 Averitt Relating to imposition of the motor vehicle sales tax on motor vehicles transferred as the result of a gift. SB 997 Duncan Relating to the administration of and exemptions from the gas production tax. SB 1199 Ogden Relating to refunds of and credits for certain sales and use taxes paid by certain exempt organizations. SB 1350 Carona Relating to the creation, administration, financing, and use of a Texas Transportation Revolving Fund; granting the authority to issue bonds. SB 1495 Williams Relating to the taxation of motor fuels. SJR 18 Ogden Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to permit the Texas Transportation Commission, subject to legislative review and approval, to designate the area adjacent to a state highway project as a transportation finance zone and dedicating the proceeds of the state sales and use taxes imposed in a transportation finance zone to the Texas Mobility Fund for certain purposes. SJR 35 Duncan | et al. Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the national research university fund to enable emerging research universities in this state to achieve national prominence as major research universities and transferring the balance of the higher education fund to the national research university fund.