89R5168 DRS-D
 
  By: Cook S.B. No. 2259
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to removing certain tax exemptions for leasehold or other
  possessory interests in public facilities granted by public
  facility corporations.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 303.0421(f), Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (f)  Notwithstanding Sections 303.042(a) and (b) and except
  as otherwise provided by this section, during the period that a
  corporation owns a particular public facility that is a multifamily
  residential development,[:
               [(1)  a leasehold or other possessory interest in the
  real property of the public facility granted by the corporation
  shall be treated in the same manner as a leasehold or other
  possessory interest in real property granted by an authority under
  Section 379B.011(b); and
               [(2)]  the materials used by a person granted a
  possessory interest in the real property of the public facility by
  the corporation [described by Subdivision (1)] to improve the real
  property of the public facility shall be exempt from all sales and
  use taxes because the materials are for the benefit of the
  corporation.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to ad valorem taxes imposed
  for a tax year that begins on or after the effective date of this
  Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.