SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Finance-S/C on Fiscal Matters 

TIME & DATE:  9:00 AM, Monday, March 25, 2013 

PLACE:        E1.036 (Finance Room) 
CHAIR:        Senator Glenn Hegar 

 

 

Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks to 3 minutes.  If submitting written testimony, please submit 20 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Committee during the hearing. 

 

SB 102        Patrick
Relating to the rollback tax rate of a taxing unit other than a school district and to voter approval of a proposed tax rate that exceeds the rollback tax rate.

SB 144        Williams
Relating to the calculation of the ad valorem rollback tax rates of certain taxing units.

SB 163        Van de Putte
Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a member of the armed services of the United States who is killed in action.

SB 465        Van de Putte | et al.
Relating to the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation to which certain disabled veterans and the surviving spouses and children of certain veterans are entitled.

SB 657        Paxton
Relating to procedural requirements for adopting and filing a school district budget and voting requirements for setting a property tax rate by the governing body of a taxing unit, including a school district.

SB 1224       Taylor
Relating to the use by a property owner of a common or contract carrier to send a payment, report, application, statement, or other document or paper to a taxing unit or taxing official.

SB 1255       Patrick
Relating to binding arbitration of an appraisal review board order determining a protest of an unequal appraisal of the owner's property.

SB 1256       Patrick
Relating to the requirements for a sale to be considered a comparable sale for ad valorem tax purposes.

SJR 16        Van de Putte
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a member of the armed services of the United States who is killed in action.

SJR 30        Van de Putte | et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature under certain limitations to specify the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation to which certain disabled veterans and the surviving spouses and children of certain veterans are entitled.