** REVISION **
                                   SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Finance

TIME & DATE: 11:00AM Or upon adjournment
             Thursday, May 11, 2006

PLACE: E1.036

CHAIR: Senator Steve Ogden

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To consider the following:


SB 6            Ogden
Relating to certain tax legislation enacted by the 79th
Legislature, 3rd Called Session.

SB 13            Duncan
Relating to the state retirement contribution for public education
employees; making an appropriation.

SB 15            Ogden
Relating to an appropriation for the Permanent Higher Education
Fund under Section 17(i), Article VII, Texas Constitution.

SB 16            Ogden
Relating to supplemental state appropriations.

SB 17            Barrientos
Relating to increasing the minimum amount of the local option
residence homestead exemption from ad valorem taxation by a taxing
unit.

SB 37            Wentworth / et al.
Relating to disclosure and use of sales price information for ad
valorem tax purposes.

SJR 7            Ogden
Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a maximum school
district ad valorem tax rate for maintenance purposes, providing
that an ad valorem tax imposed by a school district is not a state
ad valorem tax, authorizing the legislature to set a lower limit on
increases in the appraised value of a residence homestead for
purposes of ad valorem taxation by a school district, and
increasing the residence homestead exemption from ad valorem
taxation for public school purposes and correspondingly adjusting
the limitation on ad valorem taxes imposed for those purposes on
the homesteads of the elderly or disabled.

SJR 8            Janek
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the governing body
of a political subdivision to establish for purposes of ad valorem
taxation by the political subdivision a limit on the maximum
average annual percentage increase in the appraised value of
residence homesteads in the political subdivision.

SJR 9            Barrientos
Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the minimum amount
of the local option residence homestead exemption from ad valorem
taxation by a political subdivision.

SJR 10            Shapiro
Proposing a constitutional amendment dedicating certain increases
in state tax revenue to public education.

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BILLS ADDED AFTER LAST POSTING:

SB 13
SB 15
SB 16
SB 17
SJR 10