By Reyna of Bexar                                     H.B. No. 3788
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the qualification of certain retirement communities as
 1-3     charitable organizations exempt from property taxes.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 11.18, Tax Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Subsection (l) to read as follows:
 1-7           (l)  To qualify as a charitable organization exempt from
 1-8     taxation under Subsection (d)(19), a retirement community must have
 1-9     a nondiscriminatory admissions policy that does not limit admission
1-10     to a limited class of persons and that makes admission available to
1-11     the public, subject only to reasonable restrictions relating to the
1-12     availability of rooms and services, age, or the financial or
1-13     medical needs of an applicant.
1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from an after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.