1-1     By:  West, Lewis of Tarrant (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)  H.B. No. 197

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;

 1-3     April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Finance; May 5, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 5, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to a late application by certain charitable and religious

 1-9     organizations for an exemption from ad valorem taxation.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 11.433, Tax Code, is amended by adding

1-12     Subsection (e) to read as follows:

1-13           (e)  An application may not be filed under this section after

1-14     December 31, 1997.

1-15           SECTION 2.  Section 11.435(e), Tax Code, is amended to read

1-16     as follows:

1-17           (e)  An application may not be filed under this section after

1-18     December 31, 1997 [1991].

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-25     passage, and it is so enacted.

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