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■ Uniform state property tax
of $1 per $100 property valua-
tion: $10.9 billion
■ Sales and use tax:
$480.8 million
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BEAUMONT — The family
of a woman who took a diet
drug called Pondimin was
awarded more than $ 1 billion by
a Jefferson County jury
Tuesday.
Cynthia Cappel-Coffey died
last year after being diagnosed
Cappel-Coffey took the drug provided adequate warnings PPH symptoms until more than use of Pondimin, Sims said. He Halliburton said in a statement.
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with the drug and had complied using Pondimin,” Wyeth attor- ed warnings of the risk of PPH. employees of Halliburton sub-
AUSTIN — A House com-
mittee rolled out a public educa-
tion funding proposal Tuesday
that increases the sales tax and
broadens its base to bring in
about $1 billion in additional
state revenue.
1 i The proposal also would elim-
inate the state’s franchise tax and
impose a 1 percent payroll tax on
businesses. A $1-per-pack ciga-
rette tax increase and state-taxed
video gambling at horse and dog
race tracks also are in the House
plan. The state sales tax would
increase to 6.50 percent from the
current 6.25 percent.
The tax on motor vehicle sales
would increase from 6.25 per- ened to capture some services,
activities.
The sales tax would be broad- also would be eliminated, includ-
tension — which attorneys for and safety.’
her family claimed resulted
from her use of the drug.
Texas House tax proposals
A Texas House committee
looking at school finance
options put forth a plan
Tuesday that would change the
state's education funding sys-
tem and rely on an assortment
of new tax options. The follow-
ing are the taxes under consid-
' eration and the money House
leaders expect them to gener-
ate per year:
REP. ELIZABETH AMES JONES, R-San Antonio, left, talks with Rep.
Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio, right, during a meeting of the House
Select Committee on Public School Finance, Tuesday in Austin.
$1.50 per $100 in appraised
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Kellogg, Brown & Root, missing
since an April 9 attack on their
convoy west of Baghdad. His
body was among four found near
the site of the attack, said com-
pany spokeswoman Wendy Hall.
Identities of three of those
bodies were confirmed last
week: Stephen Hulett, 48, of
Manistee, Mich.; Jack
Montague, 52, of Pittsburg, III.;
and Jeffery Parker, 45, of Lake
Charles, La.
Another of the seven, Thomas
Hamill of Macon, Miss., and a
military man, Pfc. Keith M.
Maupin, were abducted in the
April 9 attack. Both, who have
been seen alive on video
footage, remain unaccounted for.
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■ Motor vehicle sales tax:
$491.3 million
■ Boat and boat motor tax:
$53.9 million
■ Cigarette tax, $l-per-pack
increase: $706 million
■ Smokeless tobacco tax:
$20 million
■ Video gambling: $1.5 billion
■ $1 ticket surcharge at
movies and other amusement
venues: $134 million
■ Technology infrastructure
fund: $125 million
■ Business payroll tax of 1
percent: $2,379 billion
The Associated Press
SA judge charged
with child indecency
SAN ANTONIO — An administra-
tive law judge accused of having
sex with a local teenager may
face additional charges arising
from an incident last year in which
he was found returning from
Mexico with three underage girls.
Forrest Elmo Stewart, 77, of
San Antonio currently faces a .
state charge of felony indecency
with a child by sexual contact.
He was arrested in a Victoria
hotel last week.
Stewart, who presides over
cases involving Social Security
benefits, was released Tuesday';
on $100,000 bond, Bexar
County jail officials said.
According to an arrest affidavit,
Stewart paid $100 on a number
of occasions to have sex with a
16-year-old girl in several houses
and motels around the city. ;
The investigation that led to
Stewart's arrest began after he
was arrested with the young girls in
May 2003 in Freer in Duval County,
law enforcement officials told the
San Antonio Express-News.
The Associated Press
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“Ms. Cappel-Coffey, who
this drug by putting its making was morbidly obese, a strong Texas’ cap on punitive damages,
^primary puhnonaiyhyper" of money ahead of human life candidate for using diet drugs
for five months in 1997, accord- about the risk of PPH associated four years after she stopped said the other drugs also includ-
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House school finance plan includes sales tax increase, state property tax
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Family of woman who took diet drug awarded $ IB
The Associated Press diagnosed with PPH in 2002 with Food and Drug ney Bill Sims said. “There is
and died the following year. She Administration regulations. absolutely no basis in the record
was 41 years old. The New Jersey-based drug for the amounts awarded.”
Houston attorney John company said it would appeal
Slain Halliburton
worker identified
HOUSTON — The fourth body
Sims said while the company found near an attack on a fuel
O’Quinn, who represented the verdict and noted that PPH sympathizes with Cappel- convoy in Iraq earlier this month
Cappel-Coffey’s family, said cases represent a fraction of diet Coffey’s family, the verdict was was a contract worker for
Wyeth was negligent and “acted drug litigation. not supported by evidence pre- “
with ’malice’in marketing of “Ms. Cappel-Coffey, who sented in the case and exceeds
> Jurors did not hear evidence
and had a family history of car- that Cappel-Coffey also was
Wyeth, the company which diovascular disease prior to tak- taking four other prescription
produces the drug, said it had ing diet drugs, did not develop drugs after she discontinued her because of his unfinished life,”
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any kind of traction in com-
enrichment option. some alternatives,” would be used to fund an incen-
“They’rejust trying to move Republican House Speaker tives program that rewards
along and get a bill out, and Tom Craddick said before the teachers for student perfor-
mance, Craddick said.
Responding to Craddick’s
comments, Republican Gov.
Rick Perry said in a prepared
statement that he would “judge
any bill based on whether it pro-
vides real and lasting property
tax relief, improves our schools
and funds education equitably
without jeopardizing Texans’
jobs.”
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a
Republican who presides over
the Senate, said the concepts
Craddick laid out “appear to be
of a lot of interest to the Senate.”
The House committee also is
considering a proposal that dras- 1
tically changes the formulas
used for distributing money to
schools. That plan calls for more
than $700 million in new
ing exemptions for newspapers value to $1, with a 10-cent local mittee, so they’re looking at money. Part of the new* money
cent to 7.50 percent. The House including barber and beauty ser-1 and magazine subscriptions. enrichment option. some i
plan also imposes a $1 “amuse- vices, legal services, accounting Property taxes would become
ment ticket surcharge” for tickets services, veterinary services, a statewide tax and would be
interior design and others, reduced from the current cap of the governor’s plan didn’t have plan was presented.
Several sales tax exemptions
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