By Zbranek                                       H.B. No. 626

      75R2198 JD-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the notice given by a chief appraiser requiring a

 1-3     person to confirm the person's qualification for an ad valorem tax

 1-4     exemption.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 11.43, Tax Code, is amended by adding

 1-7     Subsection (j) to read as follows:

 1-8           (j)  If under Subsection (c) the chief appraiser requires a

 1-9     person to confirm the person's current qualification for an

1-10     exemption that the person received in a prior year, the chief

1-11     appraiser shall:

1-12                 (1)  send the notice required by Subsection (c)  not

1-13     later than February 1;

1-14                 (2)  if the person does not file the completed

1-15     exemption application form for the exemption before May 1, send a

1-16     second notice to the person not later than May 15; and

1-17                 (3)  include with each notice a statement informing the

1-18     person that the exemption will be canceled if the person does not

1-19     file the required exemption application and furnish the information

1-20     required by the application form.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.