Bill Text: TX HJR88 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to exempt from ad valorem taxation the total market value of the residence homesteads of certain elderly persons and their surviving spouses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Ways & Means [HJR88 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HJR88-Introduced.html
87R2577 SMH-D | ||
By: J. Johnson of Harris | H.J.R. No. 88 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment to exempt from ad valorem | ||
taxation the total market value of the residence homesteads of | ||
certain elderly persons and their surviving spouses. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1-b, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, | ||
is amended by adding Subsection (t) to read as follows: | ||
(t) A person is entitled to an exemption from ad valorem | ||
taxation of the total market value of the person's residence | ||
homestead if the person is 80 years of age or older and the person | ||
has received an exemption under this section for the residence | ||
homestead for at least the preceding 10 years. The surviving spouse | ||
of a person who received an exemption under this subsection for the | ||
residence homestead of a person 80 years of age or older is entitled | ||
to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the total market value | ||
of the same property if the deceased spouse died in a year in which | ||
the deceased spouse received the exemption, the surviving spouse | ||
was 55 years of age or older when the deceased spouse died, and the | ||
property was the residence homestead of the surviving spouse when | ||
the deceased spouse died and remains the residence homestead of the | ||
surviving spouse. Where ad valorem tax of a political subdivision | ||
has previously been pledged for the payment of debt, the taxing | ||
officers of the political subdivision may continue to levy and | ||
collect the tax against the value of residence homesteads exempted | ||
under this subsection until the debt is discharged if the cessation | ||
of the levy would impair the obligation of the contract by which the | ||
debt was created. The legislature shall provide for formulas to | ||
protect school districts against all or part of the revenue loss | ||
incurred by the implementation of this subsection. The legislature | ||
by general law may prescribe procedures for the administration of | ||
this subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to | ||
the Texas Constitution: | ||
TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies | ||
to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 87th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2021, to exempt from ad valorem taxation the total | ||
market value of the residence homesteads of certain elderly persons | ||
and their surviving spouses. | ||
(b) Section 1-b(t), Article VIII, of this constitution | ||
takes effect January 1, 2022. | ||
(c) This temporary provision expires January 1, 2023. | ||
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment to exempt from ad | ||
valorem taxation the total market value of the residence homestead | ||
of a person 80 years of age or older or the person's surviving | ||
spouse." |