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  By: Birdwell  S.B. No. 1257
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2021; March 18, 2021, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources &
  Economic Development; April 12, 2021, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 12, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the information required to be provided by the chief
  appraiser of an appraisal district to the comptroller in connection
  with the comptroller's central registry of reinvestment zones
  designated and ad valorem tax abatement agreements executed under
  the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 312.005(a), Tax Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         (a)  The comptroller shall maintain a central registry of
  reinvestment zones designated under this chapter and of ad valorem
  tax abatement agreements executed under this chapter. The chief
  appraiser of each appraisal district that appraises property for a
  taxing unit that has designated a reinvestment zone or executed a
  tax abatement agreement under this chapter shall deliver to the
  comptroller before July 1 of the year following the year in which
  the zone is designated or the agreement is executed a report
  providing the following information:
               (1)  for a reinvestment zone, a general description of
  the zone, including its size, the types of property located in it,
  its duration, and the guidelines and criteria established for the
  reinvestment zone under Section 312.002, including subsequent
  amendments and modifications of the guidelines or criteria;
               (2)  a copy of each tax abatement agreement to which a
  taxing unit that participates in the appraisal district is a party;
  [and]
               (3)  the information described by Section
  312.205(a)(1) in connection with each tax abatement agreement
  described by Subdivision (2) of this subsection; and
               (4)  any other information required by the comptroller
  to administer this section [and Subchapter F, Chapter 111].
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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