** REVISION **
SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Local Government 

TIME & DATE:   8:30 AM, Thursday, April 24, 2025 

PLACE:         2E.20 (Betty King Cmte. Rm.) 
CHAIR:         Senator Paul Bettencourt 

SB 208         West | et al.           
Relating to the establishment of the workforce housing capital investment fund program to fund the development of workforce housing in this state; authorizing a fee.

SB 2367        Kolkhorst
Relating to the authority of certain counties to enact certain park use rules.

SB 3044        Blanco
Relating to the composition of the board of directors and the powers of the Presidio County Underground Water Conservation District.

SB 628         Zaffirini               
Relating to the administration and enforcement of a county fire code.

SB 777         Hughes | et al.         
Relating to compensation and employment condition standards by municipal charter or collective bargaining agreement and to impasse resolution in collective bargaining with certain political subdivisions.

SB 1042        Flores                   
Relating to the Kimble County Hospital District of Kimble County, Texas.

SB 2354        Creighton               
Relating to the authority of certain persons to obtain third-party review of plats and property development plans, permits, and similar documents, and the inspection of an improvement related to such a document.

SB 2477        Bettencourt             
Relating to certain municipal and county regulation of conversion of certain office buildings to mixed-use and multifamily residential occupancy.

SB 2521        Bettencourt             
Relating to notification of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district of the death of a resident of the county in which the district is located and the determination by the chief appraiser of the effect of the decedent's death on the continued eligibility of any property in the county previously owned by the decedent for any exemption allowed for the property.

SB 2523        Bettencourt             
Relating to the release of an area from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality by petition.

SB 2608        Blanco                   
Relating to the eligibility of certain at-risk developments to receive low income housing tax credits.

SB 2703        Creighton               
Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to regulate condominiums.

SB 2778        Hinojosa, Adam          
Relating to the amount of an expenditure that may be paid by an emergency services district employee without board approval.

SB 2835        Johnson                  
Relating to regulation of stairway requirements in certain multifamily residential buildings by political subdivisions.

SB 2965        Creighton               
Relating to territory in an emergency services district that is annexed by a municipality.

The committee may also consider pending business.

Public Testimony:

Oral testimony is limited to 2 minutes. If providing written testimony,

please bring 18 copies with your name on each copy to E1.028, and send an

electronic copy to ross.leake_sc@senate.texas.gov and jared.yust_sc@senate.texas.gov.

All written testimony will be distributed to the Committee Members during

or after the hearing. Those registering a position only may do so at any

Senate kiosk by the end of the hearing.

·Oral testimony: Please use the kiosks outside in the extension hallways.

·Oral and written testimony: Please use the kiosks in the extension hallways and submit your written testimony to Committee staff located in E1.028.3

·Position only: Register using the Senate kiosk located in the extension hallways or by going to http://swrs on public-capitol. Kiosk registration will open at 7:30 a.m. the morning of the hearing.

·Written testimony only: If providing written testimony, please bring 18

copies with your name on each copy to E1.028 and submit to Committee

staff, and submit electronically to ross.leake_sc@senate.texas.gov and

jared.yust_sc@senate.texas.gov.

·All written testimony will be distributed to the Committee Members during

or after the hearing.

For those unable to appear in person, comments may be provided directly to

each Committee Member,whose contact information can be found at:

http://www.senate.texas.gov/

Bills added after last posting:

SB 2367

SB 3044

** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **

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