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	Amend SJR 29 (House committee printing) as follows:                          

(1)  Between SECTIONS 1 and 2 of the resolution (on page 1, 	between lines 15 and 16), insert the following SECTIONS to the 
resolution and renumber subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 2(b), Article VIII, Texas 
Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  The Legislature may, by general law, exempt property 
owned by a disabled veteran or by the surviving spouse and surviving 
minor children of a disabled veteran.  A disabled veteran is a 
veteran of the armed services of the United States who is classified 
as disabled by the Veterans' Administration or by a successor to 
that agency[;] or by the military service in which the veteran [he] 
served.  A veteran who is certified as having a disability of less 
than 10 percent is not entitled to an exemption.  A veteran having a 
disability rating of not less than 10 percent but less [nor more] 
than 30 percent may be granted an exemption from taxation for 
property valued at up to $5,000.  A veteran having a disability 
rating of not less [more] than 30 percent but less [not more] than 
50 percent may be granted an exemption from taxation for property 
valued at up to $7,500.  A veteran having a disability rating of not 
less [more] than 50 percent but less [not more] than 70 percent may 
be granted an exemption from taxation for property valued at up to 
$10,000.  A veteran who has a disability rating of [more than] 70 
percent or more, or a veteran who has a disability rating of not 
less than 10 percent and has attained the age of 65, or a disabled 
veteran whose disability consists of the loss or loss of use of one 
or more limbs, total blindness in one or both eyes, or paraplegia, 
may be granted an exemption from taxation for property valued at up 
to $12,000.  The spouse and children of any member of the United 
States Armed Forces who dies while on active duty may be granted an 
exemption from taxation for property valued at up to $5,000.  A 
deceased disabled veteran's surviving spouse and children may be 
granted an exemption which in the aggregate is equal to the 
exemption to which the veteran was entitled when the veteran died.
	SECTION ____.  The following temporary provision is added to 
the Texas Constitution:
	TEMPORARY PROVISION.  (a)  This temporary provision applies 
to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 80th Legislature, 
Regular Session, 2007, authorizing the legislature to exempt all or 
part of the residence homesteads of certain totally disabled 
veterans from ad valorem taxation and authorizing a change in the 
manner of determining the amount of the existing exemption from ad 
valorem taxation to which a disabled veteran is entitled and 
expires January 1, 2009.
	(b)  The amendments to Sections 1-b and 2(b), Article VIII, 
of this constitution take effect January 1, 2008, and apply only to 
a tax year beginning on or after that date.
	(2)  In SECTION 2 of the resolution, the proposed 
constitutional election ballot language (on page 1, line 21), 
between "taxation" and the period, insert "and authorizing a change 
in the manner of determining the amount of the existing exemption 
from ad valorem taxation to which a disabled veteran is entitled".