HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Ways & Means

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Wednesday, March 21, 2001

PLACE: E2.010

CHAIR: Rep. Rene Oliveira

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HB 20            Corte
Relating to the application of the sales tax to certain real
property services provided by municipalities.

HB 87            King, Phil / et al.
Relating to a franchise tax credit for expenditures made toward the
cost of transportation provided to certain welfare recipients.

HB 256            Gallego
Relating to the application of the sales tax to certain material
used to restore a damaged residence in a disaster area.

HB 272            Berman
Relating to exempting certain health care items from state sales
tax.

HB 490            Heflin
Relating to procedural and technical corrections of the Texas
Property Tax Code, with respect to multiple appraisals of a
property, notices of delinquency, penalties and interest on
deferred taxes, additional penalty on delinquent taxes against
property that escaped taxation in previous years, definitions of
personal property subject to seizure, notices of sale of seized
personal property and real property, excess proceeds of tax sales,
costs and expenses incurred in delinquent tax suits, post judgment
taxes, vacating void tax judgments and tax sales, costs of tax
sale, remedies of purchaser at void tax sale, redemptions, and
reenactment of duplicate or overlapping provisions in the Tax Code.

HB 755            Gallego
Relating to the allocation of a portion of the sales tax for
promoting tourism.

HB 802            Hope / et al.
Relating to incentives for the sale, purchase, or use of certain
vehicles.

HB 824            Ellis, Dan / et al.
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property
owned by certain nonprofit county fair associations.

HB 836            Counts
Relating to the application of the sales and use tax to certain
items used in construction by nonprofit water supply and sewer
service corporations.

HB 939            Hodge
Relating to the application of certain taxes on persons involved in
television, motion picture, video, and audio productions.

HB 983            Kitchen / et al.
Relating to a franchise tax credit for expenditures made toward the
cost of long-term care insurance policies for certain employees.

HB 1194            Brimer
Relating to the eligibility of certain property owned or leased by
a local official for ad valorem tax abatement or tax increment
financing.

HB 1285            Brimer
Relating to providing information to a municipality on sales and
use taxes paid to the municipality.

HB 1392            Keffer
Relating to applications for ad valorem tax exemptions for certain
community housing development organizations.

HB 1689            Chisum / et al.
Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation for certain
organizations engaged primarily in performing charitable functions.

HB 1710            Brimer
Relating to the financing of certain economic development projects.

HB 1812            Wohlgemuth
Relating to a franchise tax credit for expenditures made toward the
cost of long-term care insurance policies for certain employees.

HB 1845            Oliveira
Relating to simplified sales and use tax administration.

HB 1879            Chavez
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation for disabled
veterans and the surviving spouses and children of disabled
veterans and members of the armed forces who die on active duty.

HB 1886            Coleman
Relating to municipal hotel occupancy taxes.

HB 2412            Ritter
Relating to the comptroller's powers and duties concerning the
property tax.

HB 2413            Ritter
Relating to the tax on cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco
products.

HB 2496            Haggerty
Relating to certain suits instituted under the Property Tax Code
and to the award of court costs and attorneys fees in certain suits
and appeals instituted under that code.

SB 848            Ellis, Rodney
Relating to crediting interest to a suspense account of the
comptroller and transferring accumulated interest from the account.

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