1-1  By:  Hochberg (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                H.B. No. 1434
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Finance; May 9, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 9, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the claiming of the exemption from ad valorem taxation
    1-9  provided for certain property of a medical center development.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 11.43(c), Tax Code, is amended to read as
   1-12  follows:
   1-13        (c)  An exemption provided by Section 11.13, 11.17, 11.18,
   1-14  11.19, 11.20, 11.21, 11.22, 11.23(j), 11.29, 11.30, or 11.31 of
   1-15  this code, once allowed, need not be claimed in subsequent years,
   1-16  and except as otherwise provided by Subsection (e) of this section,
   1-17  the exemption applies to the property until it changes ownership or
   1-18  the person's qualification for the exemption changes.  However, the
   1-19  chief appraiser may require a person allowed one of the exemptions
   1-20  in a prior year to file a new application to confirm the person's
   1-21  <his> current qualification for the exemption by delivering a
   1-22  written notice that a new application is required, accompanied by
   1-23  an appropriate application form, to the person previously allowed
   1-24  the exemption.
   1-25        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
   1-26        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-27  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-28  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-29  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-30  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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