** REVISION **
                          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Local Government Ways and Means

TIME & DATE:  8:00AM, Thursday, March 13, 2003

PLACE: E1.004 - Ext Auditorium

CHAIR: Rep. Fred Hill

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The Committee will meet to consider the following:

HB 474            Wong / et al.
Relating to the limitation on the maximum average annual percentage
increase in the appraised value of a residence homestead for ad
valorem tax purposes.

HJR 32            Wong / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature
to set a lower limit on the maximum average annual percentage
increase in the appraised value of a residence homestead for ad
valorem tax purposes.

HB 846            Howard
Relating to the limitation on the maximum average annual percentage
increase in the appraised value of a residence homestead for ad
valorem tax purposes.

HJR 45            Howard
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature
to set a lower limit on the maximum average annual percentage
increase in the appraised value of a residence homestead for ad
valorem tax purposes.

HB 216            Hamric
Relating to the qualification of a disabled person for an exemption
from ad valorem taxation on the person's residence homestead.

HB 217            Hamric
Relating to limiting the amount of school district ad valorem taxes
that may be imposed on the residence homestead of a disabled
person.

HJR 21            Hamric
Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit an increase in the
total amount of school district ad valorem taxes that may be
imposed on the residence homestead of a disabled person.

HB 837            Hilderbran
Relating to ad valorem taxes imposed on a residence homestead in a
year in which a residence homestead exemption for an elderly person
terminates.

HB 136            Brown, Fred / et al.
Relating to limiting the amount of county or municipal ad valorem
taxes that may be imposed on the residence homesteads of the
elderly and their surviving spouses.

HJR 16            Brown, Fred / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a county or a
city or town to establish an ad valorem tax freeze on residence
homesteads of the elderly and their spouses.

HB 86            McClendon
Relating to taxes on the homesteads of the elderly.

HJR 60            McClendon
Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit increases in ad
valorem taxes imposed by a political subdivision on the residence
homestead of an elderly person or the person's surviving spouse.

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BILLS ADDED AFTER LAST POSTING:

HJR 60