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               AN ACT
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            relating to the form of a rendition statement or property report  | 
         
         
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            used to render property for ad valorem tax purposes. | 
         
         
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                   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 1.  Section 22.24(e), Tax Code, is amended to read as  | 
         
         
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            follows: | 
         
         
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                   (e)  To be valid, a rendition or report must be sworn to  | 
         
         
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            before an officer authorized by law to administer an oath.  The  | 
         
         
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            comptroller may not prescribe or approve a rendition or report form  | 
         
         
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            unless the form provides for the person filing the form to swear  | 
         
         
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            that the information provided in the rendition or report is true and  | 
         
         
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            accurate to the best of the person's knowledge and belief.  This  | 
         
         
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            subsection does not apply to a rendition or report filed: | 
         
         
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                         (1)  by a secured party, as defined by Section 22.01; | 
         
         
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                         (2)  by[,] the property owner; | 
         
         
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                         (3)  by[,] an employee of the property owner; | 
         
         
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                         (4)  by[, or] an employee of a property owner on behalf  | 
         
         
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            of an affiliated entity of the property owner; or | 
         
         
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                         (5)  on behalf of a property owner who is rendering  | 
         
         
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            tangible personal property used for the production of income and  | 
         
         
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            whose good faith estimate of the market value of that property is  | 
         
         
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            not more than $150,000. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only  | 
         
         
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            to the rendition of property for ad valorem tax purposes for a tax  | 
         
         
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            year that begins on or after January 1, 2024. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2024. | 
         
         
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               President of the Senate | 
            Speaker of the House      | 
         
         
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                   I certify that H.B. No. 2121 was passed by the House on April  | 
         
         
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            25, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not  | 
         
         
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            voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to  | 
         
         
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            H.B. No. 2121 on May 19, 2023, and requested the appointment of a  | 
         
         
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            conference committee to consider the differences between the two  | 
         
         
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            houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report  | 
         
         
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            on H.B. No. 2121 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 141,  | 
         
         
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            Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. | 
         
         
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            Chief Clerk of the House    | 
         
         
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                   I certify that H.B. No. 2121 was passed by the Senate, with  | 
         
         
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            amendments, on May 16, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays  | 
         
         
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            0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference  | 
         
         
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            committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and  | 
         
         
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            that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.  | 
         
         
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            2121 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
         
         
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            Secretary of the Senate    | 
         
         
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            APPROVED: __________________ | 
         
         
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                     __________________ | 
         
         
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                          Governor        |