HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Revenue & Public Education Funding, Select

TIME & DATE: 11:00AM or one hour after adj.,
             Monday, March 24, 1997

PLACE: E2.036

CHAIR: Rep. Paul Sadler

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The committee will take invited testimony on public school finance.

The committee will also take invited testimony on the following bills:


HB 952            Moffat
Relating to the dedication of revenue derived from the state
lottery to the foundation school fund.

HB 1094            Marchant
Relating to the residence homestead exemption from ad valorem
taxation for general elementary and secondary public school
purposes and to the funding of certain school districts.

HB 1347            Alexander
Relating to the transfer of the school tax freeze on the homestead
of an elderly person to a newly acquired homestead.

HB 1506            Dutton
Relating to the use of program weights under the foundation school
program.

HB 1559            Garcia
Relating to the funding allotment for bilingual education programs
in public schools.

HB 1776            Hilbert / et al.
Relating to ad valorem taxation.

HB 1952            Pitts
Relating to funding for compensatory education programs in public
schools.

HJR 34            Raymond / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment to dedicate net revenue from
the state lottery to public school purposes.

HJR 38            Goodman
Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for transferring
the school tax freeze on the homestead of an elderly person to a
new homestead in certain circumstances.

HJR 57            Alexander
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to transferring the
school tax freeze on homesteads of the elderly.

HJR 67            Marchant
Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the residence
homestead exemption from ad valorem taxation for general elementary
and secondary public school purposes.

HJR 91            Hochberg
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the appraisal of
residence homesteads for ad valorem taxation by school districts
and other political subdivisions of this state.

SJR 22            Harris
Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for transferring
the school tax freeze on the homestead of an elderly person to a
new homestead in certain circumstances.

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