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