By Turner of Coleman                                   H.B. No. 294
       74R1115 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the ad valorem tax appraisal of land designated for
    1-3  agricultural use.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 23.44, Tax Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  A parcel of land purchased by the claimant through the
    1-8  Veterans' Land Program is not ineligible for appraisal under this
    1-9  subchapter solely because of the size or location of the parcel.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
   1-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.