** REVISION **
SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:
Finance
TIME & DATE:
12:00 PM or upon adjournment
Monday, April 27, 2009
PLACE:
E1.036 (Finance Room)
CHAIR:
Senator Steve Ogden
To consider the following:
 
SB 798
 
Carona
Relating to refunds of overpayments or erroneous payments of ad valorem taxes.
 
SB 958
 
Hegar
Relating to an exemption from the sales and use tax for machinery and equipment used in an agricultural aircraft operation.
 
SB 2350
 
Ogden
Relating to the payment of cy pres funds in an action by the attorney general.
 
SB 2442
 
Uresti
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain charitable organizations.
 
 
Pending Business:
 
SB 474
 
Estes
Relating to the comptroller's electronic funds transfer system and the use of electronic paycards.
 
SB 505
 
Ogden
Relating to authorizing the designation of an area adjacent to a state highway project as a transportation finance zone and requiring that the revenue from the state sales and use taxes imposed in the zone be used to pay obligations issued in connection with the project.
 
SB 696
 
Ellis
Relating to the lease of certain state parking facilities to other persons.
 
SB 756
 
Eltife
Relating to the authority of certain school districts to enter into property tax abatement agreements in connection with realigned or closed military facilities.
 
SB 801
 
Hegar
Relating to the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of land used for wildlife management.
 
SB 1497
 
Williams
Relating to binding arbitration of certain appraisal review board orders.
 
SB 2084
 
Ogden
Relating to changing the eligibility for a tuition and fees exemption under the TEXAS grant program to accommodate the amount of funding available.
 

SB 2212
 
Lucio
Relating to authorizing an emergency services district to impose an ad valorem tax for the acquisition of land, equipment, or apparatus or the construction of capital improvements.
 
SB 2240
 
Zaffirini
Relating to the financing of educational facilities by higher education authorities and the governance of certain higher education authorities.
 
SJR 43
 
Lucio
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the imposition of an additional ad valorem tax for emergency services districts, subject to voter approval, at a rate not to exceed five cents for the acquisition of land, equipment, or apparatus or the construction of capital improvements.
 
Bills added after last posting:
SB 474
SB 505
SB 696
SB 756
SB 801
SB 1497
SB 2084
SB 2212
SB 2240
SJR 43
** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **