By Willis H.B. No. 627 74R3715 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the tax appraisal of certain land owned or formerly 1-3 owned by disabled veterans and designated for agricultural use. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 23, Tax Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 23.551 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 23.551. CERTAIN VETERANS LAND EXEMPTED FROM SANCTIONS. 1-8 (a) The sanctions provided by Section 23.55(a) do not apply to: 1-9 (1) land owned by a disabled veteran or the unmarried 1-10 surviving spouse of a disabled veteran and acquired by the veteran 1-11 through the Veterans' Land Program at least 20 years before the 1-12 date the change of use of the land occurs; or 1-13 (2) land purchased from a disabled veteran or from the 1-14 unmarried surviving spouse of a disabled veteran that was acquired 1-15 by the veteran through the Veterans' Land Program at least 20 years 1-16 before the date the land was sold by the veteran or the veteran's 1-17 spouse, while the land is owned exclusively by the purchaser. 1-18 (b) In this section, "disabled veteran" has the meaning 1-19 assigned by Section 11.22(h). 1-20 SECTION 2. 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, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.