Bill Text: TX HB1613 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of the law governing the provision of state aid to certain local governments disproportionately affected by the granting of ad valorem tax relief to disabled veterans.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 65-40)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-25 - House appoints conferees-reported [HB1613 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1613-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Shine, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Flores) H.B. No. 1613
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2023;
  May 12, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
  May 19, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 16, Nays 1; May 19, 2023,
  sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1613 By:  Flores
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the applicability of the law governing the provision of
  state aid to certain local governments disproportionately affected
  by the granting of ad valorem tax relief to disabled veterans.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 140.011(a)(2), Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
               (2)  "Local government" means:
                     (A)  a municipality adjacent to a United States
  military installation; [and]
                     (B)  a county in which a United States military
  installation is wholly or partly located; and
                     (C)  a municipality located in a county that:
                           (i)  is described by Paragraph (B); and
                           (ii)  has a population of:
                                 (a)  more than 370,000 but not more
  than 380,000; or
                                 (b)  more than 83,000 but not more than
  84,000.
         SECTION 2.  Section 140.011, Local Government Code, as
  amended by this Act, applies to the eligibility of a local
  government to apply for a disabled veteran assistance payment
  beginning with the fiscal year of the local government that ends in
  the 2023 tax year.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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