1-1  By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1682
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed April 27, 1995; April 28, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Finance; May 1, 1995,
    1-4  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0;
    1-5  May 1, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the conveyance of a possessory interest in property
    1-9  acquired by a public entity or state agency in connection with the
   1-10  superconducting super collider facility.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 2301, Government Code, is
   1-13  amended by adding Section 2301.0635 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 2301.0635.  NOTICE OF CERTAIN LEASES TO TAX APPRAISAL
   1-15  OFFICE.  (a)  A public entity or state agency that owns real
   1-16  property or a facility acquired under this chapter shall notify the
   1-17  tax appraisal office for the county in which the property is
   1-18  located of any possessory interest in the property, including a
   1-19  leasehold, that on January 1 is held by another person.
   1-20        (b)  Notice under this section is given by delivering to the
   1-21  tax appraisal office, not later than May 1, a copy of each
   1-22  instrument evidencing the conveyance of a possessory interest in
   1-23  the property.
   1-24        (c)  If after receipt of notice under Subsection (b) the
   1-25  chief appraiser of the tax appraisal office determines that
   1-26  additional information relating to the conveyance of the possessory
   1-27  interest is necessary for the appraisal of that interest for ad
   1-28  valorem tax purposes, the chief appraiser may request the public
   1-29  entity or state agency to provide the additional information.  If
   1-30  the chief appraiser requests additional information under this
   1-31  subsection, the public entity or state agency shall deliver the
   1-32  requested information to the tax appraisal office, or notify the
   1-33  chief tax appraisal office that it does not possess the requested
   1-34  information, before the 30th day after the date of the request.
   1-35        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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