1-1 By: Brady (Senate Sponsor - Parker) H.B. No. 2393
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Finance; May 19, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 19, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Montford x
1-9 Turner x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Ellis x
1-14 Haley x
1-15 Moncrief x
1-16 Parker x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Sims x
1-19 Truan x
1-20 Zaffirini x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property
1-24 owned by certain charitable organizations.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 11.18(d), Tax Code, is amended to read as
1-27 follows:
1-28 (d) A charitable organization must be organized exclusively
1-29 to perform religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or
1-30 educational purposes and, except as permitted by Subsection (h) of
1-31 this section, engage exclusively in performing one or more of the
1-32 following charitable functions:
1-33 (1) providing medical care without regard to the
1-34 beneficiaries' ability to pay;
1-35 (2) providing support or relief to orphans,
1-36 delinquent, dependent, or handicapped children in need of
1-37 residential care, abused or battered spouses or children in need of
1-38 temporary shelter, the impoverished, or victims of natural disaster
1-39 without regard to the beneficiaries' ability to pay;
1-40 (3) providing support to elderly persons or the
1-41 handicapped without regard to the beneficiaries' ability to pay;
1-42 (4) preserving a historical landmark or site;
1-43 (5) promoting or operating a museum, zoo, library,
1-44 theater of the dramatic or performing arts, or symphony orchestra
1-45 or choir;
1-46 (6) promoting or providing humane treatment of
1-47 animals;
1-48 (7) acquiring, storing, transporting, selling, or
1-49 distributing water for public use;
1-50 (8) answering fire alarms and extinguishing fires with
1-51 no compensation or only nominal compensation to the members of the
1-52 organization;
1-53 (9) promoting the athletic development of boys or
1-54 girls under the age of 18 years;
1-55 (10) preserving or conserving wildlife;
1-56 (11) promoting educational development through loans
1-57 or scholarships to students;
1-58 (12) providing halfway house services pursuant to a
1-59 certification as a halfway house by the Board of Pardons and
1-60 Paroles;
1-61 (13) providing permanent housing and related social,
1-62 health care, and educational facilities for persons who are 62
1-63 years of age or older without regard to the residents' ability to
1-64 pay;
1-65 (14) promoting or operating an art gallery, museum, or
1-66 collection, in a permanent location or on tour, that is open to the
1-67 public;
1-68 (15) providing for the organized solicitation and
2-1 collection for distributions through gifts, grants, and agreements
2-2 to nonprofit charitable, education, religious, and youth
2-3 organizations that provide direct human, health, and welfare
2-4 services;
2-5 (16) performing biomedical or scientific research or
2-6 biomedical or scientific education for the benefit of the public;
2-7 or
2-8 (17) operating a television station that produces or
2-9 broadcasts educational, cultural, or other public interest
2-10 programming and that receives grants from the Corporation for
2-11 Public Broadcasting under 47 U.S.C. Section 396.
2-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1994.
2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-18 * * * * *
2-19 Austin,
2-20 Texas
2-21 May 19, 1993
2-22 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-23 President of the Senate
2-24 Sir:
2-25 We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred H.B. No. 2393,
2-26 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-27 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-28 pass and be printed.
2-29 Montford,
2-30 Chairman
2-31 * * * * *
2-32 WITNESSES
2-33 FOR AGAINST ON
2-34 ___________________________________________________________________
2-35 Name: Bob Stout x
2-36 Representing: Mitchell Energy & Development
2-37 City: The Woodlands
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