SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Finance-S/C on Fiscal Matters 

TIME & DATE:  8:00 AM, Thursday, April 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.  

 

To consider the following:

 

SB 46         Zaffirini
Relating to exempting books purchased, used, or consumed by university and college students from the sales and use tax for a limited period.

SB 100        Patrick                
Relating to the total revenue exemption for the franchise tax.

SB 319        Uresti                 
Relating to the tax exemption for permanent hotel residents.

SB 594        Deuell                 
Relating to exempting the first $1 million from total revenue for purposes of the franchise tax.

SB 1136       Hinojosa               
Relating to imposing a fee on the sale of cigarettes and cigarette tobacco products manufactured by certain companies; providing penalties.

SB 1685       Zaffirini              
Relating to exemptions from property taxation and sales and use taxation for certain offshore spill response and well containment property used to control pollution.

SB 1783       Zaffirini              
Relating to the tax exemption for permanent hotel residents in certain oil and gas producing municipalities.

Pending business:

 

SB 140        Ellis | et al.
Relating to a periodic review and expiration dates of state and local tax preferences.

SB 781        Hinojosa
Relating to the exclusion of certain transportation services costs in determining total revenue for purposes of the franchise tax.

SB 868        Eltife
Relating to the exclusion of certain flow-through payments related to petroleum and mineral interests in determining total revenue for purposes of the franchise tax.

SB 1030       Taylor
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of energy storage systems used for the control of air pollution in a nonattainment area.

SB 1494       Hinojosa
Relating to the licensing and regulation of horse and greyhound racing; providing penalties; authorizing a fee.

SB 1779       Zaffirini
Relating to ad valorem tax incentives for the recycling of water used in oil or gas drilling or production.