73R5847 JD-F
By Driver H.B. No. 1016
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the date for filing ad valorem tax rendition statements
1-3 and property reports.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 22.23, Tax Code, is amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 Sec. 22.23. Filing Date. (a) Rendition statements and
1-8 property reports must be delivered to the chief appraiser after
1-9 January 1 and before April 15 <1>, except as provided by Section
1-10 22.02 of this code.
1-11 (b) For <Upon written request by a property owner the chief
1-12 appraiser shall extend a deadline for filing a rendition statement
1-13 or property report until April 30; provided, however, that for>
1-14 good cause shown in writing by the property owner, the chief
1-15 appraiser may <further> extend a deadline for filing a rendition
1-16 statement or property report by written order to a date not later
1-17 than April 30 <an additional 15 days but in no event may he extend
1-18 the filing deadline beyond May 15>.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.