Amend SB 546 (house committee printing) as follows:                          
	(1)  Insert the following appropriately-numbered SECTIONS 
and renumber any subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter B, Chapter 11, Tax Code, is amended 
by adding Section 11.112 to read as follows:
	Sec. 11.112.  PROPERTY USED FOR CONTROLLING POLLUTION FROM 
PUBLIC PROPERTY.  A person is entitled to an exemption under this 
section from taxation of the real and personal property the person 
owns that is used in connection with the manufacture or production 
of a product or the provision of a service that prevents, monitors, 
controls, or reduces air, water, or land pollution if:
		(1)  the person installs and uses the product, or 
provides the service, under a contract or other agreement with a 
governmental entity to capture and convert waste, including gas, 
from public property; and
		(2)  the person:                                                       
			(A)  processes and delivers the waste to a common 
carrier to displace a natural resource; or
			(B)  processes and converts the waste to 
electrical or other useful energy for the benefit of the 
governmental entity.
	SECTION ____.  Section 11.43(a), Tax Code, is amended to read 
as follows:    
	(a)  To receive an exemption, a person claiming the 
exemption, other than an exemption authorized by Section 11.11, 
11.112, 11.12, 11.14, 11.145, 11.146, 11.15, 11.16, 11.161, or 
11.25 of this code, must apply for the exemption.  To apply for an 
exemption, a person must file an exemption application form with 
the chief appraiser for each appraisal district in which the 
property subject to the claimed exemption has situs.
	SECTION ____.  The changes to Sections 11.112 and 11.43(a), 
Tax Code, made by this Act, apply only to an ad valorem tax year that 
begins on or after the effective date of this Act.
	(2)  On page 16, line 11, strike "and (c)" and substitute ", 
(c), and (d)".  
	(3)  On page 17, after line 17, insert the following:                          
	(d)  Sections 11.112 and 11.43(a), as amended by this Act, 
take effect January 1, 2010.