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.