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Senate Bill 594 |
Senate Author: Creighton |
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Effective: 1-1-18 |
House Sponsor: Springer |
Previous law required rules relating to the development and distribution of appraisal manuals setting forth the methods of appraising qualified open-space land and qualified timber land and the development and enforcement of procedures for verifying that land as qualified, before taking effect, to have been approved by a majority vote of a committee composed of the governor, the comptroller of public accounts, the attorney general, the agriculture commissioner, and the commissioner of the General Land Office or the designees of those officials. Senate Bill 594 amends the Tax Code to instead require the rules regarding qualified open-space land to be approved by the comptroller with the review and counsel of the Department of Agriculture before taking effect and the rules regarding qualified timber land to be approved by the comptroller with the review and counsel of the Texas A&M Forest Service before taking effect.