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