** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:   Ways & Means 

TIME & DATE: 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess
Thursday, May 16, 2013 

PLACE:       E2.014 
CHAIR:       Rep. Harvey Hilderbran 

SB 158        Carona
Relating to the average price below which a newspaper is exempt from the sales tax.

SB 489        Paxton | et al.
Relating to the authority of a taxing unit other than a school district to establish a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that the taxing unit may impose on the residence homesteads of individuals who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

SJR 32        Paxton | et al.        
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a political subdivision other than a school district to establish a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that the political subdivision may impose on the residence homesteads of persons who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

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 | et al.       
Relating to the requirements for a sale to be considered a comparable sale for ad valorem tax purposes.

SB 1508       Hegar                  
Relating to the rendition of certain property for ad valorem tax purposes.

SB 1533       Carona                 
Relating to municipal sales and use tax remittances by certain retailers.

SB 1585       Rodríguez              
Relating to the authority of certain counties to impose a county hotel occupancy tax.

SB 1703       Zaffirini              
Relating to the use of hotel occupancy tax revenue in certain municipalities and counties.

SB 1833       Uresti                 
Relating to the rate of the hotel occupancy tax in certain counties.

Notice of this meeting was announced from the house floor.

Bills added after last posting:

SB 158

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