SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Finance 

TIME & DATE:  9:00 AM, Thursday, April 04, 2013 

PLACE:        E1.036 (Finance Room) 
CHAIR:        Senator Tommy Williams 

 

 

Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks to 3 minutes.  If submitting written testimony, please submit 40 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Committee during the hearing.

 

To consider the following:

 

 

SB 101        Patrick | et al.       
Relating to the constitutional limit on the rate of growth of appropriations and the use of surplus state revenues.

SB 1655       Williams | et al.      
Relating to authorizing the Public Utility Commission of Texas to direct the comptroller to return the unappropriated balance of the system benefit fund to retail electric customers.

SB 1656       Williams               
Relating to the constitutional limit on the rate of growth of appropriations.

SB 1808       Schwertner             
Relating to the cost effects of expanding eligibility for medical assistance under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

SJR 10        Patrick | et al.       
Proposing a constitutional amendment concerning the limitation on the rate of growth in appropriations and the use of unencumbered surplus state revenues to provide for a rebate of state franchise taxes, to reduce public school district property taxes, and to fund the state's rainy day fund.

SJR 55        Williams | et al.      
Proposing a constitutional amendment appropriating the system benefit fund for the purpose of returning system benefit fund fees to retail electric customers.

SJR 56        Williams               
Proposing a constitutional amendment concerning the limitation on the rate of growth of state appropriations.

SJR 61        Schwertner             
Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the reduction of amounts paid by Texans to provide health care to the uninsured if Medicaid eligibility is expanded in accordance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; requiring hospital district tax rate reductions.

Subcommittee Reports:

 

SB 446        Eltife                 
Relating to allowable transfers to the Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission of proceeds from the taxes on the sale, storage, or use of sporting goods.

SB 485        Ellis                  
Relating to the sales tax exemption period for clothing and footwear.

SB 489        Paxton                 
Relating to the authority of a taxing unit other than a school district to establish a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that the taxing unit may impose on the residence homesteads of individuals who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

SB 546        Williams | et al.      
Relating to continuing education requirements and a registration exemption for county tax assessor-collectors.

SB 657        Paxton                 
Relating to procedural requirements for adopting and filing a school district budget and voting requirements for setting a property tax rate by the governing body of a taxing unit, including a school district.

SB 1076       Hegar                  
Relating to the circumstances under which an appraisal review board hearing shall be closed to the public.

SB 1224       Taylor                 
Relating to the use by a property owner of a common or contract carrier to send a payment, report, application, statement, or other document or paper to a taxing unit or taxing official.

SB 1255       Patrick                
Relating to binding arbitration of an appraisal review board order determining a protest of an unequal appraisal of the owner's property.

SB 1256       Patrick                
Relating to the requirements for a sale to be considered a comparable sale for ad valorem tax purposes.

SJR 32        Paxton                 
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a political subdivision other than a school district to establish a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that the political subdivision may impose on the residence homesteads of persons who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.