** REVISION **
SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Finance 

TIME & DATE:   9:00 AM, Wednesday, May 21, 2025 

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:

HB 104         Bonnen                  SP: Schwertner
Relating to the creation of the Texas future fund and the Texas future fund investment review board and to the permissible uses of money in the Texas future fund.

HB 2434        Plesa | et al.           SP: Hinojosa, Adam
Relating to the purchase of service credit by certain members of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

HB 2529        Dean                    SP: Huffman
Relating to the annual state salary supplement for certain county judges.

HB 2688        Harless | et al.         SP: Huffman
Relating to the firefighters' relief and retirement fund of certain municipalities.

HB 3161        Villalobos | et al.      SP: Hinojosa, Adam
Relating to member contributions to the Texas Municipal Retirement System.

HB 3486        Hunter | et al.          SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to a reduction in the amount of sales and use tax collections that the owners of restaurants that purchase Texas farm-raised oysters are required to remit to the comptroller of public accounts.

HB 3487        Hunter | et al.          SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to a reduction in the amount of sales and use tax collections that the owners of restaurants that participate in an oyster shell recycling program are required to remit to the comptroller of public accounts.

HB 3745        Manuel | et al.          SP: Zaffirini
Relating to crime victims' compensation.

HB 4044        Meyer | et al.           SP: Creighton
Relating to certain expenditures by public institutions of higher education and university systems that are eligible for certain tax credits.

HB 4226        Morales Shaw | et al.    SP: Campbell
Relating to an exemption from the taxes imposed on the sale, use, or rental of a motor vehicle for a vehicle purchased, used, or rented by a nonprofit food bank.

HB 4945        Ashby | et al.           SP: Nichols
Relating to a study by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas on the feasibility of offering alternative service retirement benefits to certain members of the retirement system engaged in wildland firefighting or employed in positions related to wildland firefighting.

The committee may also consider pending business.

Bills added after last posting:

HB 104

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

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