By Alexander                                          H.B. No. 1358
       74R2580 SMH-D
                                 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  previously <that on January 1, 1992, was> appraised as qualified
    1-9  open-space land under this subchapter<, or that was eligible to be
   1-10  appraised as qualified open-space land under this subchapter,> in
   1-11  at least two of the following ways to propagate a sustaining
   1-12  breeding population of indigenous wild animals <to produce a
   1-13  harvestable surplus of those animals> for human use, including
   1-14  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.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996, and
   1-24  applies only to taxes imposed for tax years beginning on or after
    2-1  that date.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.