URGENT: VETERANS NEEDED AT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE HEARING MONDAY 21 MARCH 2011

Please make every effort to attend the Finance Committee hearing on 

Monday

21 March 2011

10:00 am

E1.036

As you are well aware, the transferability of the 100% property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans to their surviving spouses is the number one legislative priority of the Texas Coalition of Veterans Organizations for the 82nd Texas Legislature.  

Coming with very short notice are bills that address our #1 priority.  I ask every veterans service organization to provide representation at this meeting. 

Please send at least one representative from your veterans service organization.  More would be appreciated and will most definitely make a major impact on the members of the Senate Finance Committee.

TCVO and our friends and supporters in the Senate need your support and physical presence now more than ever.  In this time of budget shortfalls we, TCVO, must present a united front for the surviving spouses of our 100% disabled veterans.

If you and your veteran service organization believe that transferring the 100% property tax exemption to the surviving spouse of a 100% disabled veteran is important, and the absolutely right thing to do, please ensure that at least one member of your organization attends this meeting and turns in a card, or better yet, gives testimony in support of the legislation that will ensure that the widows/widowers will be able to keep their homes.

Time to act people.  No excuses.

RSVP directly to me and confirm that your VSO will be at the meeting to support this critical piece of legislation.

Thank you for your support.

John

John A Miterko

Legislative Liaison

Texas Coalition of Veterans Organizations

SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Finance  TIME & DATE:  10:00 AM, Monday, March 21, 2011  PLACE:        E1.036 (Finance Room)   CHAIR:        Senator Steve Ogden

 

Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks to 3 minutes.  If submitting written testimony, please submit 25 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Committee during the hearing.

SB 201        Uresti | et al. Relating to the calculation of ad valorem taxes on the residence homestead of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran for the tax year in which the veteran qualifies or ceases to qualify for an exemption from taxation of the homestead.

SB 357        Van de Putte | et al. Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran or the principal residence of the surviving minor children of such a disabled veteran.

SB 516        Patrick | et al. Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran.

SJR 14        Van de Putte | et al. Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a totally disabled veteran or the principal residence of the surviving minor children of such a disabled veteran.

SJR 21        Patrick | et al. Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran in an amount equal to the amount of the residence homestead exemption to which the disabled veteran was entitled.