By Black                                              H.B. No. 1847
       74R6690 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the qualification of land for appraisal as open-space
    1-3  land for ad valorem tax purposes.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 23.51, Tax Code, is amended by amending
    1-6  Subdivision (6) and adding Subdivision (8) to read as follows:
    1-7              (6)  "Exotic animal" means:
    1-8                    (A)  a species of game not indigenous to this
    1-9  state, including axis deer, nilgai <nilga> antelope, red sheep, and
   1-10  other cloven-hoofed ruminant mammals;<,> or
   1-11                    (B)  exotic fowl as defined by Section 142.001,
   1-12  Agriculture Code, other than a ratite.
   1-13              (8)  "Livestock" includes a ratite.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.