74R11210 SMH-F
          By Alexander                                          H.B. No. 1358
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1358:
          By Craddick                                       C.S.H.B. No. 1358
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of open-space
    1-3  land used for wildlife management.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 23.51(7), Tax Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7              (7)  "Wildlife management" means actively using land
    1-8  that at the time the wildlife-management use began <on January 1,
    1-9  1992,> was appraised as qualified open-space land under this
   1-10  subchapter<, or that was eligible to be appraised as qualified
   1-11  open-space land under this subchapter,> in at least three <two> of
   1-12  the following ways to propagate a sustaining breeding population of
   1-13  indigenous wild animals <to produce a harvestable surplus of those
   1-14  animals> for human use, including food, medicine, or recreation:
   1-15                    (A)  habitat control;
   1-16                    (B)  erosion control;
   1-17                    (C)  predator control;
   1-18                    (D)  providing supplemental supplies of water;
   1-19                    (E)  providing supplemental supplies of food;
   1-20                    (F)  providing shelters; and
   1-21                    (G)  making of census counts to determine
   1-22  population.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Section 23.52, Tax Code, is amended by adding
   1-24  Subsection (g) to read as follows:
    2-1        (g)  The comptroller, with the assistance of the Parks and
    2-2  Wildlife Department or the Texas Agricultural Extension Service,
    2-3  shall develop and distribute to each appraisal district guidelines
    2-4  for use by the chief appraiser in determining whether land
    2-5  qualifies under Section 23.51(7) for appraisal under this
    2-6  subchapter.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996, and
    2-8  applies only to taxes imposed for tax years beginning on or after
    2-9  that date.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.