By Eiland H.B. No. 2583 76R8882 T A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the taxation of windstorm protection devices. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 11 of the Tax Code shall be amended to 1-5 add Section 11.272, and read as follows: 1-6 Section 11.272. WINDSTORM PROTECTION DEVICES. (a) A person 1-7 is entitled to an exemption from taxation of the amount of 1-8 appraised value of his property that arises from the installation 1-9 or construction of a windstorm protection device. 1-10 (b) The comptroller, with the assistance of the Texas 1-11 Department of Insurance, or its successor, shall develop guidelines 1-12 to assist local officials in the administration of this section. 1-13 (c) In this section, the Commissioner of Insurance shall 1-14 have rule making authority to determine what is a windstorm 1-15 protection device. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house to be suspended, and this rule is hereby 1-22 suspended.