Texas Senate Bill 418 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-01 - Referred to Finance
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Relating to the authority of the governing body of a taxing unit other than a school district to adopt an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion, expressed as a dollar amount, of the appraised value of an individual's residence homestead, the authority of the governing body of certain taxing units that have adopted such an exemption to reduce the amount of or repeal certain other exemptions, and the treatment of such an exemption in the calculation of certain ad valorem tax rates.

Relating to the authority of the governing body of a taxing unit other than a school district to adopt an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion, expressed as a dollar amount, of the appraised value of an individual's residence homestead, the authority of the governing body of certain taxing units that have adopted such an exemption to reduce the amount of or repeal certain other exemptions, and the treatment of such an exemption in the calculation of certain ad valorem tax rates.

Sen. Kirk Watson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-01	Senate	Referred to Finance
2017-02-01	Senate	Read first time
2017-01-06	Senate	Filed
2017-01-06	Senate	Received by the Secretary of the Senate

SJR29 (Enabling for) 2017-01-30 - Referred to Finance

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=SB418
Text	http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/85R/billtext/html/SB00418I.htm