76R14018 JD-D                           
         By Talton                                             H.B. No. 3368
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3368:
         By Craddick                                       C.S.H.B. No. 3368
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property
 1-3     owned by a religious organization.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 11.43, Tax Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Subsection (l) to read as follows:
 1-7           (l)  This subsection applies only to a religious organization
 1-8     that has conscientious objections to filing an application for
 1-9     exemption under Section 11.20.  In lieu of filing an application
1-10     for the exemption, the religious organization at any time during
1-11     the tax year, on its own initiative or on written or oral inquiry
1-12     by the appraisal office, may identify the property owned by the
1-13     organization, state its objections to filing an application for the
1-14     exemption, and submit evidence showing that it is not subject to
1-15     taxation.  On receipt of the information submitted by the religious
1-16     organization, the chief appraiser shall investigate whether the
1-17     information is correct.  Unless the chief appraiser determines that
1-18     the information is not correct, the property is not subject to
1-19     taxation.
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.