20071029 Maryland General Assembly Special Session Public Hearing Schedule beginning October 30th, 2007

Maryland General Assembly Special Session Public Hearing Schedule beginning October 30^th, 2007

Maryland General Assembly

Special Session Public Hearing Schedule

Tuesday, October 30

10:00 a.m., Joint Hearing Room

House Appropriations Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, and the Spending Affordability Committee

(1) Spending Affordability Presentation – State Budget Overview

(2) Briefing on Governor’s Cost of Delay Budget Reductions

(3) Governor’s Proposed Budget Solution – Overview

1:00 p.m., Joint Hearing Room

House Appropriations Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Budget and Taxation Committee

(1) Hearing on the Governor’s Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act

a. Freeze on Education Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Governments

b. Elimination of Electric Utility Property Tax Grant and Repeal of Electric Utility Company Property Tax Exemption

Wednesday, October 31

9:00 a.m., Joint Hearing Room

House Ways and Means Committee, House Appropriations Committee, and the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee

(1) Hearing on Governor’s Transportation Funding legislation

a. Vehicle Excise Tax

b. Motor Fuel Tax Indexing

c. General Fund Transfers

1:00 p.m., Joint Hearing Room

House Ways and Means Committee, House Appropriations Committee, and the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee

(1) Hearing on Governor’s Corporate Tax legislation

a. Controlling Interest

b. Corporate Income Tax Rate – dedication to Higher Education and Transportation

c. Combined Reporting

Thursday, November 1

10:00 a.m., Joint Hearing Room

House Ways and Means Committee, House Appropriations Committee, and the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee

(1) Hearing on Governor’s Property Tax Reduction legislation

House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee

(2) Hearing on Governor’s Tobacco Tax legislation

1:00 p.m., Joint Hearing Room

House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee

(1) Hearing on Governor’s Income Tax Restructuring legislation

a. Increase of Refundable Earned Income Tax Credit

b. Restructuring of Income Tax Rates

c. Refundable Sales Tax Credit

d. Senior Income Tax Exemption

(2) Hearing on Governor’s Sales Tax legislation

a. Sales Tax Rate

b. Expansion of Sales Tax to Certain Services

c. Sales Tax Holidays

1:00 p.m., 3 East, Miller Senate Building

House Health and Government Operations Committee and the Senate Finance Committee

(1) Hearing on Governor’s Health Care Reform legislation

1:00 p.m., Room 120 House Office Building

House Appropriations Committee

(1) Briefing and hearing on further budget reduction options

Friday, November 2

11:00 a.m., Joint Hearing Room

House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee

(1) Hearing on Governor’s Video Lottery Terminal legislation

11:00 a.m., Room 250, House Office Building

House Environmental Matters Committee

(1) Hearing on Green Fund legislation

11:00 a.m., Room 120, House Office Building

House Appropriations Committee

(1) Briefing on Mandated Budget Appropriations

Saturday, November 3

10:00 a.m., 3 West, Miller Senate Building

Senate Budget and Taxation Committee

Work Session

10:00 a.m., Room 130, House Office Building

House Ways and Means Committee

Bill hearings to be announced

10:00 a.m., Room 120, House Office Building

House Appropriations Committee

Bill hearings to be announced

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