1-1     By:  Danburg (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay)               H.B. No. 3184
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2001;
 1-3     May 10, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 11, 2001, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the contents of an application for an exemption from ad
1-10     valorem taxation.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 11.43(f), Tax Code, is amended to read as
1-13     follows:
1-14           (f)  The comptroller, in prescribing the contents of the
1-15     application form for each kind of exemption, shall ensure that the
1-16     form requires an applicant to furnish the information necessary to
1-17     determine the validity of the exemption claim.  The form must
1-18     require an applicant to provide the applicant's name and driver's
1-19     license number, personal identification certificate number, or
1-20     social security account number.  The comptroller shall include on
1-21     the forms a notice of the penalties prescribed by Section 37.10,
1-22     Penal Code, for making or filing an application containing a false
1-23     statement.  The forms must include a statement to be sworn to
1-24     before a notary public or other official authorized to administer
1-25     oaths that each fact contained in the application is true and that
1-26     the applicant has read and understands the notice of penalties
1-27     required by this subsection.  The comptroller shall include, on
1-28     application forms for exemptions that do not have to be claimed
1-29     annually, a statement explaining that the application need not be
1-30     made annually and that if the exemption is allowed, the applicant
1-31     has a duty to notify the chief appraiser when the applicant's
1-32     entitlement to the exemption ends.  In this subsection:
1-33                 (1)  "Driver's license" has the meaning assigned [that
1-34     term] by Section 521.001, Transportation Code.
1-35                 (2)  "Personal identification certificate" means a
1-36     certificate issued by the Department of Public Safety under
1-37     Subchapter E, Chapter 521, Transportation Code.
1-38           SECTION 2.  Section 11.43(j), Tax Code, as added by Chapter
1-39     1039, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is
1-40     amended to read as follows:
1-41           (j)  An application for an exemption under Section 11.13
1-42     must:
1-43                 (1)  list each owner of the residence homestead and the
1-44     interest of each owner; and
1-45                 (2)  state that the applicant does not claim an
1-46     exemption under that section on another residence homestead [;]
1-47                 [(3)  state that each fact contained in the application
1-48     is true; and]
1-49                 [(4)  include a sworn statement that the applicant has
1-50     read and understands the notice of the penalties required by
1-51     Subsection (f)].
1-52           SECTION 3.  Section 11.43(j), Tax Code, as added by Chapter
1-53     194, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is
1-54     repealed.
1-55           SECTION 4.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-56     to an application for an exemption from ad valorem taxation filed
1-57     on or after the effective date of this Act.  An application for an
1-58     exemption from ad valorem taxation filed before the effective date
1-59     of this Act is covered by the law in effect on the date the
1-60     application was filed, and that law is continued in effect for that
1-61     purpose.
1-62           SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2002.
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