By:  Turner, S.                                        H.B. No. 835
       73R3923 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authorizing late applications for ad valorem tax
    1-3  exemptions for certain religious organizations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 11.433(e), Tax Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (e)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the chief appraiser
    1-8  shall accept and approve or deny an application for an exemption
    1-9  under Section 11.20 after the filing deadline provided by Section
   1-10  11.43 if the application is filed not later than December 31 of the
   1-11  12th year after the year in which the taxes for which the exemption
   1-12  is claimed were imposed and if the application is filed before
   1-13  January 1, 1994.  This subsection expires January 1, 1995 <An
   1-14  application may not be filed under this section after December 31,
   1-15  1991>.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.