HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Ways & Means

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM, Wednesday, April 14, 1999

PLACE: E2.014

CHAIR: Rep. Rene Oliveira

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HB 767            Hill
Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to receive
sales tax information.

HB 1164            Hawley
Relating to an exemption from the severance tax for oil and gas
produced from certain wells under certain market conditions.

HB 1273            Dutton
Relating to a requirement that retail grocers post a sign listing
items that are exempt from the sales and use tax.

HB 1310            Merritt / et al.
Relating to an exemption from the severance tax for oil produced
from low-producing wells.

HB 1761            Hill
Relating to the treatment of certain contracts for purposes of
determining the rollback tax rate of a taxing unit.

HB 1785            Dutton
Relating to the sales and use tax imposed by certain rapid transit
authorities.

HB 2737            Turner, Bob / et al.
Relating to tax incentives for certain agricultural processing
companies locating or expanding in this state.

HB 2999            Janek
Relating to the ad valorem taxation of freeport goods.

HB 3034            Oliveira
Relating to property tax abatement agreements.

HB 3082            Telford
Relating to the collection of motor fuel tax; providing penalties.

HB 3211            McCall
Relating to state fiscal matters, including the printing and
cancellation of certain warrants, consulting services, payroll
deductions for savings bond purchases, advance payments, the
collection of debts to the state, the collection of delinquent
taxes, and the methods used by state agencies to make and receive
payments.

HB 3212            McCall
Relating to technical changes to statutes involving taxes or fees
administered by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.

HB 3213            McCall
Relating to the referral and reporting of delinquent obligations to
the attorney general.

HB 3218            McCall
Relating to the disclosure of certain information maintained or
obtained by the comptroller of public accounts of the State of
Texas or the attorney general.

HB 3659            Oliveira
Relating to the sales and use tax on gasoline, diesel fuel, and
liquefied gas; providing penalties.

HB 3600            McClendon / et al.
Relating to the taxation of small quantities of cigarettes imported
into this state from a foreign country.

HB 3567            Uher
Relating to county development districts.

HB 3460            Kuempel
Relating to the taxation of water recreation and related services
in park and recreation districts in certain counties.

HB 3252            Gray
Relating to hotel occupancy taxes in an eligible coastal
municipality.

HB 3623            Hilbert
Relating to the application of the sales tax and licensing fees to
professional land surveyors.

HB 3197            Ramsay
Relating to the appraisal and ad valorem taxation of a retail
manufactured housing inventory.

HJR 81            Uher
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the ad valorem
taxation of boats and other equipment used in the commercial taking
or production of fish, shrimp, shellfish, or other marine life.

HB 3549            Heflin
Relating to procedural and technical corrections of the Texas
Property Tax Code and the Texas Finance Code, and relating to
notices of sale, orders of sale, proceeds of sale, excess proceeds
of sale, redemptions in delinquent tax suits, collection of taxes
on sale of business, additional penalty on taxes with delayed
delinquency dates and on delinquent standby fees, notices of
delinquency, subrogation of purchasers at void or defective tax
resales, taxes to be included in judgments, jurisdictional
provisions for tax claims against certain estates in probate,
service of process on corporations following forfeiture of
corporate privileges, and repeals of overlapping and duplicate
provisions in the Tax Code.

HB 2427            King, Tracy
Relating to reporting and delivering unclaimed property to the
comptroller.

HB 2428            King, Tracy
Relating to certain functions of the comptroller of public accounts
involving ad valorem taxation.

HB 2429            King, Tracy
Relating to the method of payment for vendors by the Comptroller of
Public Accounts.

HB 3051            King, Tracy
Relating to the content and exchange of documents used in ad
valorem taxation disputes.

HB 3052            King, Tracy
Relating to appraisal methods for ad valorem taxation.

HB 3541            Craddick
Relating to delinquent tax collection of a mineral royalty
interest.

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