SENATE
                         NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING


COMMITTEE: Tax Reform & Public School Finance, Select
SUBCOMMITTEE: CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON HJR 4 & HB 4

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM OR AS ANNOUNCED BY CHAIR,
             Thursday, May 15, 1997

PLACE: EXTENSION, E1.030

CHAIR: Senator Kenneth Armbrister

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HJR 4            Craddick / et al.        SP: Armbrister
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for certain priority
and minimum funding for public schools, dedicating certain lottery
proceeds to public education, authorizing certain taxes on
entities, authorizing the creation of a commission to study
efficiency in state government, and providing for transfer or
further reduction of a limitation of school tax on homesteads of
the elderly.

HB 4            Craddick                 SP: Armbrister
Relating to funding public elementary and secondary schools and
providing property tax relief and equity and to the imposition,
administration, enforcement, and collection of, and allocation of
the revenue from, various state and local taxes; providing
penalties; making an appropriation.

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