SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Finance 

TIME & DATE:   12:00 PM, Friday, August 15, 2025 

PLACE:         E1.036 (Finance Room) 
CHAIR:         Senator Joan Huffman 

24 hour posting rule suspended

Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks to 2 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please submit 40 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Clerk during the hearing.

· Oral testimony: fill out a paper witness card and submit to the  Clerk.

· Oral and written testimony: fill out a paper witness card and submit to the Clerk. Hold on to your documents until your name is called to the table.

· Position only: fill out a paper witness card and submit to the  Clerk.

· Written testimony only: fill out a paper witness card and bring your 40 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Clerk, during the hearing.

To consider the following:

SB 2           Perry | et al.
Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees.

SB 3           Bettencourt | et al.
Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flood-prone areas.

SB 5           Huffman | et al.
Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.

SB 9           Bettencourt | et al.
Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.

SB 10          Bettencourt | et al.
Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units.

SB 14          Perry | et al.
Relating to the provision by a political subdivision of credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects.

SB 16          West | et al.
Relating to real property theft and real property fraud; establishing recording requirements for certain documents concerning real property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations, restitution, and certain procedures with respect to those offenses.

SB 18          Zaffirini
Relating to an exemption from the requirement to obtain a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for certain dams or reservoirs operated and maintained for the purposes of erosion, floodwater, and sediment control.

SB 34          Huffman
Relating to testimony or the production of evidence before a house of the legislature or legislative committee.

NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES WHO PLAN TO ATTEND THIS MEETING AND WHO MAY NEED ASSISTANCE, SUCH AS A SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER OR PERSONAL ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES, ARE REQUESTED TO CONTACT THE SENATE COMMITTEE COORDINATOR AT 512/463-0070, 72 HOURS PRIOR TO THE MEETING SO APPROPRIATE ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE.