Bill Text: TX SB773 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of real property owned by certain charitable organizations.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-07 - Referred to Local Government [SB773 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB773-Introduced.html

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89R4407 PRL-D
By: Eckhardt S.B. No. 773

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of real property
owned by certain charitable organizations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.18(a), Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
(a) An organization that qualifies as a charitable
organization as provided by this section is entitled to an
exemption from taxation of:
(1) the buildings and tangible personal property that:
(A) are owned by the charitable organization; and
(B) except as permitted by Subsection (b), are
used exclusively by qualified charitable organizations;
(2) the real property owned by the charitable
organization consisting of:
(A) an incomplete improvement that:
(i) is under active construction or other
physical preparation; and
(ii) is designed and intended to be used
exclusively by qualified charitable organizations; and
(B) the land on which the incomplete improvement
is located that will be reasonably necessary for the use of the
improvement by qualified charitable organizations; [and]
(3) if the charitable organization is described by
Subsection (d)(1), (2), (3)(A)(ii), (5), (8), (13), (15), or (19),
the real property owned by the charitable organization consisting
of an interest in a mineral in place, including a royalty interest,
provided that the interest:
(A) is not severed from the surface estate; or
(B) was donated to the charitable organization by
the previous owner of the interest; and
(4) all real property that:
(A) is owned by a charitable organization
described by Subsection (d)(10), (21), or (22); and
(B) except as permitted by Subsection (b), is
used exclusively by the organization.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an ad valorem tax year that begins on or after the effective date
of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.