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          AN ACT
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        relating to the exclusion by taxable entities engaged in providing  | 
      
      
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        services as an agricultural aircraft operation of certain costs in  | 
      
      
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        determining total revenue for purposes of the franchise tax. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 171.1011, Tax Code, is amended by adding  | 
      
      
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        Subsection (w-1) to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (w-1)  A taxable entity primarily engaged in the business of  | 
      
      
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        providing services as an agricultural aircraft operation, as  | 
      
      
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        defined by 14 C.F.R. Section 137.3, shall exclude from its total  | 
      
      
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        revenue the cost of labor, equipment, fuel, and materials used in  | 
      
      
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        providing those services. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a report originally due  | 
      
      
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        on or after the effective date of this Act. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2014. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2451 was passed by the House on May 4,  | 
      
      
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        2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 129, Nays 4, 3 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2451 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
      
      
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        22, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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                         Governor        |