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|  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
|  | AN ACT | 
|  | relating to the authority of the Cow Creek Groundwater Conservation | 
|  | District to exempt property from ad valorem taxation. | 
|  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
|  | SECTION 1.  Section 3.0111, Chapter 966, Acts of the 77th | 
|  | Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended by adding Subsection | 
|  | (i) to read as follows: | 
|  | (i)  Subsections (f), (g), and (h) of this section do not | 
|  | apply until the first tax year following the year in which the | 
|  | district imposes an ad valorem tax for administrative, operation, | 
|  | or maintenance expenses at a rate of three cents per $100 valuation. | 
|  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | 
|  | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | 
|  | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this | 
|  | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | 
|  | Act takes effect September 1, 2007. |