** REVISION **
SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Finance 

TIME & DATE:   9:00 AM, Monday, May 13, 2019 

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

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:

HB 1243        Ashby | et al.           SP: Zaffirini
Relating to the allocation of certain revenue from mixed beverage gross receipts and sales taxes.

HB 2065        Lucio III | et al.       SP: Lucio
Relating to the use of general revenue appropriations for the artificial reef program.

HB 2256        Sanford                 SP: Perry
Relating to procedures for tax auditing, determining amounts of overpayments, and obtaining reimbursements of overpayments of gas production taxes.

HB 2358        Guillen                 SP: Paxton
Relating to the payment of certain sales and use taxes by a retailer.

HB 2545        Guillen                 SP: Hinojosa
Relating to franchise tax, oil production tax, and gas production tax incentives for certain desalination facility operations.

HB 3386        Geren                   SP: Nelson
Relating to the sales and use tax exemption for certain amusement services.

HB 3475        Guillen                 SP: Hinojosa
Relating to the administration, collection, and remittance of the cigars and tobacco products tax; requiring a permit.

HB 4611        Huberty                 SP: Taylor
Relating to certain distributions to the available school fund.

HB 4614        Guillen                 SP: Hinojosa
Relating to the administration, collection, and remittance of the  cigarette tax; requiring a permit.

HJR 5          Thompson, Senfronia | et al.  SP: Kolkhorst
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the dedication of certain sales and use tax revenue to the Texas mental and behavioral health research fund established to fund research, treatment, and access to services in this state for behavioral health, mental health, and substance use and addiction issues.

HJR 151        Huberty                 SP: Taylor
Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing increased distributions to the available school fund.

Bills added after last posting:

HB 3386

HB 4611

HJR 151

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