Amend CSHB 3757 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) On page 1, line 12, strike "LOW-INCOME".
(2) On page 1, strike lines 14 through 16 and substitute the following:
(1) "Eligible individual" means an individual who meets any income eligibility requirements for a limitation on tax increases provided by this section prescribed by the qualifying taxing unit that established the limitation. If the qualifying taxing unit does not prescribe income eligibility requirements for the limitation on tax increases provided by this section, an eligible individual is any individual who is otherwise eligible for the limitation provided by this section.
(3) On page 2, between lines 2 and 3, insert the following appropriately lettered subsection and reletter subsequent subsections and cross-references to those subsections accordingly:
(____) The governing body of a qualifying taxing unit that establishes a limitation on tax increases provided by this section may elect to provide the limitation to all individuals who are disabled or are 65 years of age or older or to provide the limitation only to those individuals who are disabled or are 65 years of age or older and who meet certain income eligibility requirements established by the governing body. If the governing body establishes income eligibility requirements for the limitation on tax increases provided by this section, those requirements must be based on an individual having a household income that does not exceed 200 percent of the federal poverty level. For purposes of income eligibility requirements established under this subsection, if an individual's household income was initially determined using only the income of the individual and the individual's spouse, on the death of the individual or the individual's spouse, the surviving spouse's household income must be calculated as though two persons still reside in the household.
(4) On page 11, line 26, strike "certain low-income".