** REVISION **
SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Finance 

TIME & DATE:   9:00 AM, Monday, April 15, 2019 

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

All bills will be laid out before public testimony is taken.  The Committee will recess at 10:45 for session and public testimony will resume after session.

Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks to 2 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please submit 40 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Assistant Clerk during the hearing.

· Oral testimony: fill out a paper witness card and submit to the Assistant Clerk.

· Oral and written testimony: fill out a paper witness card and hold on to your documents until your name is called to the table. 

· Position only: register using the Senate kiosk located in the extension hallways or by going to Http://swrs on public-capitol.

· Written testimony only: register your position using the Senate kiosk then bring your 40 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Assistant Clerk, during the hearing.

To consider the following:

SB 66          Nelson | et al.         
Relating to the decrease of the rates of the franchise tax under certain circumstances and the expiration of that tax.

SB 288         Miles                  
Relating to the authority of a county assistance district to impose a sales and use tax.

SB 412         Hughes                 
Relating to a franchise tax credit based on the ad valorem taxes paid by a taxable entity on certain inventory.

SB 570         Creighton              
Relating to a franchise tax credit for entities that employ certain students in certain paid internship or similar programs.

SB 574         Miles                  
Relating to a franchise tax credit for entities that establish a grocery store or healthy corner store in a food desert.

SB 774         Creighton              
Relating to a franchise tax credit for taxable entities offering postsecondary tuition assistance.

SB 1050        Hughes | et al.         
Relating to the creation and operation of a health care quality provider participation program; authorizing an administrative penalty.

SB 1081        Taylor | et al.         
Relating to a deduction under the franchise tax for certain contracts with the federal government.

SB 1143        Hughes                 
Relating to the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of tangible personal property held for sale at retail and a franchise tax credit based on the ad valorem taxes paid on such property.

SB 1417        Johnson                
Relating to phasing out the tax reduction for certain high-cost gas.

SB 1481        Hinojosa               
Relating to the exemption from the franchise tax and certain filing fees for certain businesses owned by veterans during an initial period of operation in the state.

SB 1824        Perry                  
Relating to the exclusion from total revenue of certain payments made by a performing rights society for purposes of computing the franchise tax.

SB 1869        Hinojosa               
Relating to a franchise tax credit for taxable entities that employ persons with disabilities.

SB 2220        Bettencourt            
Relating to fees collected by the Automobile Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority.

SB 2326        Creighton              
Relating to the franchise tax and alternative revenue sources and spending priorities for this state; repealing the franchise tax.

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