Amend SB 656 as follows:
(1) On Page 2, line 4, insert the following SECTION and
renumber the subsequent SECTION accordingly:
SECTION 2. Section 216.010, Local Government Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (b) to read as follows:
Section 216.010(b). If any [a] sign is required to be
relocated or reconstructed, or an on-premise sign is required to be
removed, the municipality, acting pursuant to the Property
Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act (Chapter 312, Tax Code), may
abate municipal property taxes that otherwise would be owed by the
owner of the sign. The abated taxes may be on any real or personal
property owned by the owner of the sign except residential
property. The right to the abatement of taxes is assignable by the
holder, and the assignee may use the right to abatement with respect
to taxes on any nonresidential property in the same taxing
jurisdiction. In a municipality where tax abatement is used to pay
compensable costs, the costs include reasonable interest and the
abatement period may not exceed five years.