SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Finance 

TIME & DATE:   10:00 AM, Monday, April 3, 2023 

PLACE:         E1.036 (Finance Room) 
CHAIR:         Senator Joan Huffman 

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.

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· 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 and pending business:

SB 19          Huffman                
Relating to the administration and investment of, and distribution and use of money from, certain constitutional and statutory funds to support general academic teaching institutions in achieving national prominence as major research universities and driving the state economy; redesignating the national research fund as the Texas University Fund.

SB 267         King                   
Relating to a law enforcement agency accreditation grant program.

SB 952         Perry                  
Relating to certain tax and fee collection procedures and taxpayer suits.

SB 1022        Nichols                
Relating to the sales and use tax exemption for the repair, remodeling, or maintenance of aircraft.

SB 1053        Hughes                 
Relating to the definition of marketplace seller for purposes of sales and use taxes.

SB 1232        Nichols                
Relating to the determination of the sufficient balance of the economic stabilization fund for the purpose of allocating general revenue to that fund and the state highway fund.

SB 1614        Perry                  
Relating to the computation of the cost of goods sold by television and radio broadcasters for purposes of the franchise tax.

SB 1854        Paxton                 
Relating to optional group benefits for dental and vision care under the Texas Public School Employees Group Insurance Program.

SB 2280        Perry                  
Relating to the exclusion of services provided by a marketplace provider from the definition of data processing services.

SB 2289        Huffman                
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of certain tangible personal property held by a manufacturer of medical or biomedical products as a finished good or used in the manufacturing or processing of medical or biomedical products.

SB 2310        Hinojosa               
Relating to longevity pay for certain prosecutors.

SB 2315        Hughes                 
Relating to the creation of a task force to develop a plan for the consolidation of the functions of workforce development programs administered by the Texas Workforce Commission and social services programs administered by the Health and Human Services Commission.

SJR 5          Huffman                
Proposing a constitutional amendment renaming the national research university fund as the Texas University Fund, providing for the appropriation of certain investment income from the economic stabilization fund to the Texas University Fund, excepting appropriations to and from the Texas University Fund from the constitutional limit on the rate of growth of appropriations, and appropriating money from the general revenue fund to the Texas University Fund to be spent for purposes of providing funding to certain public institutions of higher education to achieve national prominence as major research universities and drive the state economy.

SJR 87         Huffman                
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation certain tangible personal property held by a manufacturer of medical or biomedical products as a finished good or used in the manufacturing or processing of medical or biomedical products.

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