By Nelson                                               S.B. No. 54
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the filing of a late application for an ad valorem tax
 1-3     exemption by a religious organization.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 11.433(e), Tax Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           (e)  An application may not be filed under this section after
 1-8     December 31, 1999 [1997].
 1-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-15     passage, and it is so enacted.