Amend CSSB 1811 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered ARTICLE to the bill and renumbering the subsequent ARTICLES of the bill accordingly:

ARTICLE ____. ELIGIBILITY OF SURVIVING SPOUSE OF DISABLED VETERAN TO PAY AD VALOREM TAXES ON RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD IN INSTALLMENTS

SECTION ____.01.  Section 31.031, Tax Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:

(a)  This section applies only to:

(1)  [If before the delinquency date] an individual who is:

(A)  disabled or at least 65 years of age; and

(B)  [is] qualified for an exemption under Section 11.13(c); or

(a-1)  If before the delinquency date an individual to whom this section applies pays at least one-fourth of a taxing unit's taxes imposed on property that the person owns and occupies as a residence homestead, accompanied by notice to the taxing unit that the person will pay the remaining taxes in installments, the person may pay the remaining taxes without penalty or interest in three equal installments. The first installment must be paid before April 1, the second installment before June 1, and the third installment before August 1.

SECTION ____.02.  This article applies only to an ad valorem tax year that begins on or after the effective date of this article.

SECTION ____.03.  This article takes effect January 1, 2012.