SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Finance 

TIME & DATE:   9:00 AM, Thursday, May 18, 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:

HB 630         Vasut                   SP: Huffman
Relating to the provision of lifeguards by certain municipalities and counties on public beaches.

HB 1613        Shine | et al.           SP: Flores
Relating to the provision of state aid to certain local governments to offset the cost of the exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran.

HB 2779        Leach                   SP: Huffman
Relating to the compensation and retirement benefits of certain elected state officials.

HB 3461        Bonnen                  SP: Huffman
Relating to the creation and re-creation of funds and accounts, the dedication and rededication of revenue and allocation of accrued interest on dedicated revenue, and the exemption of unappropriated money from use for general governmental purposes.

HB 4041        Bonnen                  SP: Huffman
Relating to directing payment, after approval, of certain miscellaneous claims and judgments against the state out of funds designated by this Act; making appropriations.

HB 4256        Murr                    SP: Blanco
Relating to the establishment of a grant program to plug leaking water wells in certain counties; making an appropriation.

HB 4865        Harris, Cody             SP: LaMantia
Relating to the taxation of cigars and pipe tobacco sold by certain remote retail sellers; requiring an occupational permit.

HB 5409        Paul | et al.            SP: Huffman
Relating to the board of directors and duties of the Gulf Coast Protection District.

HJR 2          Bonnen | et al.          SP: Huffman
Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the contribution rate of the members of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, authorizing the legislature to provide cost-of-living adjustments or other benefit enhancements to eligible annuitants of the system, and providing a one-time transfer of funds for benefit enhancements and for contributions and actuarially determined payments to eliminate the unfunded actuarial liabilities of the system.

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