HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Ways & Means

TIME & DATE: upon final adjourn./recess
             Friday, May 2, 2003

PLACE: E 2.010

CHAIR: Rep. Ron Wilson

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Notice of this meeting was announced from the house floor.


HB 53            Wolens
Relating to an increase in the cigarette tax and the distribution
of that increase to counties and municipalities for police,
sheriff, and fire services.

HB 184            Merritt / et al.
Relating to the application of the sales tax to United States and
Texas flags.

HB 321            Wolens
Relating to additional court filing fees to pay operating expenses
of the courts of appeals.

HB 702            Solomons
Relating to the application of the sunset review process to state
taxes.

HB 855            West, George "Buddy"
Relating to the application of the sales tax to certain bingo
equipment.

HB 1393            Smith, Wayne
Relating to the application of the sales tax and licensing fees to
professional land surveyors.

HB 1603            Griggs
Relating to increases in the tax on cigarettes and other tobacco
products and to the allocation of those increases to the foundation
school fund.

HB 1964            Oliveira
Relating to the sales tax on telecommunications services.

HB 2413            Hopson
Relating to the tax on gasoline sold to volunteer fire departments
for their exclusive use.

HB 2772            Solomons
Relating to civil penalty for sales and use tax.

HB 2942            McReynolds
Relating to the use of electronic means for certain interactions
between taxpayers and appraisal districts.

HB 3072            Wohlgemuth
Relating to the determination of school district property values
and the accountability of appraisal district operations.

HJR 83            Hopson
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to
allocate an amount greater than one-fourth of the net revenue from
the tax on motor fuels sold to volunteer fire departments to the
available school fund.

SB 714            Lindsay
Relating to the liability of a taxing unit for the fee of an
attorney ad litem in a suit to collect delinquent ad valorem taxes.

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