** REVISION **
SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Finance 

TIME & DATE:  9:00 AM, Wednesday, April 22, 2015 

PLACE:        E1.036 (Finance Room) 
CHAIR:        Senator Jane Nelson 

 

 

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 309        Campbell               
Relating to public access to boundary, financial, and tax rate information of certain political subdivisions.

SB 593        Watson                 
Relating to the award of attorney's fees in a judicial appeal of certain ad valorem tax determinations.

SB 1215       Bettencourt            
Relating to abolishing the property tax assistance division of the office of the comptroller of public accounts and transferring its powers and duties to the newly created State Property Tax Board.

SB 1248       West                   
Relating to a franchise tax credit for entities that employ certain students in certain paid internship or similar programs.

SB 1379       Lucio                  
Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of structures used primarily to store implements of husbandry.

SB 1468       Watson                 
Relating to the selection and removal of officials involved in the process of appraising property for ad valorem tax purposes.

SB 1469       Watson                 
Relating to regular reapplication for certain pollution control exemptions from ad valorem taxation granted for certain property.

SB 1832       Menéndez               
Relating to the contents of a notice of appraised value sent to a property owner by the chief appraiser of an appraisal district.

SB 1843       West                   
Relating to a local option exemption from ad valorem taxation by a county of a portion of the value of the residence homestead of a physician who provides health care services for which the physician agrees not to seek payment from any source, including the Medicaid program or otherwise from this state or the federal government, to indigent residents of the county.

SB 2029       Menéndez               
Relating to the expiration of the municipal sales and use tax for street maintenance in certain municipalities.

SJR 19        Perry | et al.         
Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting appropriations from the economic stabilization fund to a total amount that the comptroller of public accounts estimates will not result at any time in a fund balance of less than a prescribed minimum amount, other than in an emergency if certain requirements are met.

SJR 37        Taylor, Van | et al.   
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for certain excess revenue to be dedicated toward contributions to state retirement systems, the health benefit plan for retired education employees and their dependents, the Texas tomorrow fund, the permanent school fund, and the permanent university fund.

SJR 50        Lucio                  
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation structures used to store certain implements of husbandry.

SJR 61        West                   
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a local option exemption from ad valorem taxation by a county of a portion of the value of the residence homestead of a physician who provides health care services for which the physician agrees not to seek payment from any source, including the Medicaid program or otherwise from this state or the federal government, to indigent residents of the county.

 

 

Bills deleted after last posting:

SB 157

 

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