PPROA Pipeline ~ May 2015
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PRIORITY LEGISLATION
A FEW NOTES:
35 Days. As of Monday, April 27th we have 35 days in the Texas legislature The sounds you will begin to hear are of bills dying. The calendars for
the House and Senate will get longer with less time for committee hearings. Most of the House Committee hearings now through the mid May will
be “mercy hearings”. Some, but few, will make it.
Big Issues Left. We now have House and Senate Budget Conferees. So that work is underway. The House will took up HB 31 and HB The vote
on HB 31 was 141-0. The vote on HB 32 was 116-29. They are the franchise tax cut and the sales tax cut. They should move to the Senate by
May 1st. Leadership has to begin reaching agreement on the big issues.
The more interesting vote was on the Smithee Amendment to raise the business exemption from $1 million to $4 million. The vote was 120 to 16 to
table the amendment with the Speaker (who rarely votes) voting to table.
HB 40.
Keffer Congestion Bill. HB 3288.
Earthquakes and the RRC. As pr