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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