SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Finance 

TIME & DATE:   9:00 AM, Monday, May 8, 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.

· 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 and pending business:

SB 2334        Hughes
Relating to the establishment of a digital currency backed by gold; authorizing a fee.

HB 300         Howard | et al.          SP: Huffman
Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for certain family care items.

HB 1038        Cain | et al.            SP: Sparks
Relating to a biennial report on state lending and credit support programs.

HB 1393        Frank | et al.           SP: Perry
Relating to an optional service retirement annuity that provides an increasing annuity under the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

HB 3345        Bonnen                  SP: Huffman
Relating to the amount of the fee imposed on certain sexually oriented businesses that is allocated to the sexual assault program fund and the allocation of certain other revenue to that fund; increasing the amount of a fee.

HB 3651        Bailes                  SP: Nichols
Relating to motor fuel taxes.

HB 4015        Thompson, Ed             SP: Hancock
Relating to the disposition of certain fees collected for the rail safety program.

HB 4381        DeAyala                 SP: Huffman
Relating to the suspension of a money judgment pending appeal in a civil action.

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