HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Ways & Means TIME & DATE: 9:30AM, Friday, May 5, 2000 PLACE: 1401 Pacific, Dallas, TX CHAIR: Rep. Rene Oliveira ___________________________________________________________________________ The House Committee on Ways and Means will meet at the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority Headquarters Boardroom at 1401 Pacific Street in Dallas, Texas to take up its interim charges to: Review the tax exemptions and credits approved by the 76th Legislature, including S.B. 441 and the emergency severance tax measures, and evaluate their success in achieving legislative goals (Invited testimony only); and Identify and list the specific changes to the tax structure that would: (1) produce the most positive effect on gross state product; (2) produce the most positive effect on the creation and retention of jobs that pay a living wage; (3) most benefit troubled or declining industries, such as agriculture and oil production; (4) promote enhanced tax equity, including mitigation of the regressivity of the current tax structure; and (5) address loopholes that permit certain classes of taxpayers to avoid equitable taxation. (Invited and public testimony will be taken.) ___________________________________________________________________________