By Craddick H.B. No. 2613 74R6884 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property 1-3 owned by a religious organization. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.20, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-7 (g) For purposes of Subsection (a)(5), an incomplete 1-8 improvement is under physical preparation if the religious 1-9 organization has engaged in architectural or engineering work, soil 1-10 testing, land clearing activities, or site improvement work 1-11 necessary for the construction of the improvement or has conducted 1-12 an environmental or land use study relating to the construction of 1-13 the improvement. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.