1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to a late application by certain charitable and religious

 1-3     organizations for an exemption from ad valorem taxation.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 11.433, Tax Code, is amended by adding

 1-6     Subsection (e) to read as follows:

 1-7           (e)  An application may not be filed under this section after

 1-8     December 31, 1997.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  Section 11.435(e), Tax Code, is amended to read

1-10     as follows:

1-11           (e)  An application may not be filed under this section after

1-12     December 31, 1997 [1991].

1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 197 was passed by the House on April

         11, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 132, Nays 0, 2 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 197 was passed by the Senate on May

         8, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor