** REVISION **
SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:
Finance
TIME & DATE:
10:00 AM, Wednesday, May 12, 2010
PLACE:
E1.036 (Finance Room)
CHAIR:
Senator Steve Ogden
The Senate Finance Committee will meet on May 12, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in
room E1.036 of the Capitol Extension.  The Committee will hear invited and
public testimony regarding the following interim charges of the Committee:
 
Consider and make recommendations relating to the constitutional
constraints and fiscal implications of exempting real property, leased to
a school, as defined by Section 11.21 of the Tax Code, from ad valorem
taxation.
 
Study the impact of changing the constitutional and statutory spending
limit based on the sum of the rate of population growth and the rate of
inflation.  Examine what past biennial spending limits would have been,
and what the next biennium's limit might be, under a new definition.
Consider the impact of exempting growth from federally mandated programs.
 
Monitor the use of Byrne Grant Border security funds, including whether
additional funds need to be spent on communications interoperability.
 
Monitor the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas grant making
process to ensure that funds are spent efficiently and effectively.
 
Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks to 3
minutes.  If submitting written testimony, please provide 25 copies, with
your name on each copy, to the Committee during the hearing.
** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **