** REVISION **
SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Finance 

TIME & DATE:  10:00 AM, Monday, April 03, 2017 

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 298        Hinojosa               
Relating to the creation and funding of the Texas Forensic Science Commission operating account.

SB 446        Burton                 
Relating to the acceptance or expenditure of federal funds by a political subdivision.

SB 806        Creighton              
Relating to a report concerning, and actions by certain state officers regarding, federal money provided to this state that is subject to a coercive federal condition.

SB 1008       Seliger                
Relating to funding for the economic stabilization fund, including the rates of severance taxes on oil and gas production.

SB 1120       Zaffirini              
Relating to the prohibition of local motor fuel taxes on compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas.

SB 1275       Taylor, Van            
Relating to the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of certain nonexempt property used for low-income or moderate-income housing.

SB 1345       Watson                 
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by a charitable organization and used to provide tax return preparation and other financial services without regard to the beneficiaries' ability to pay.

SB 1390       Hinojosa               
Relating to taxes and fees imposed on cigarettes and other tobacco products, including an exemption to the cigarette tax, related administrative matters, and the elements of certain related offenses.

SB 1543       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 1767       Buckingham             
Relating to hearings and protests before appraisal review boards involving ad valorem tax determinations.

SB 1923       Schwertner             
Relating to infrastructure funding for state hospital facilities and other state facilities, including the creation of the state hospital fund.

SJR 41        Seliger                
Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for foregoing the transfer of oil and gas production tax revenue to the economic stabilization fund if the ending fund balance for the preceding fiscal year is greater than $5 billion and for reducing the rates of oil and gas production taxes by amounts sufficient to equal the foregone transfer.

SJR 52        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 county residents who are indigent or who are Medicaid recipients.

The Committee also intends to take up pending business.

 

 

 

Bills added after last posting:

SB 1008

SJR 41

 

** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **