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.