Bill Text: TX HB803 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the penalty for failure to make a timely installment payment of ad valorem taxes on property in a disaster area.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-04 - Left pending in committee [HB803 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB803-Introduced.html
  82R951 ALL-F
 
  By: Bonnen H.B. No. 803
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the penalty for failure to make a timely installment
  payment of ad valorem taxes on property in a disaster area.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 31.032(c), Tax Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         (c)  If the person fails to make a payment before the
  applicable date provided by Subsection (b), the unpaid amount is
  delinquent and incurs a penalty of six [12] percent and interest as
  provided by Section 33.01(c).
         SECTION 2.  Section 31.032(c), Tax Code, as amended by this
  Act, applies only to the penalty for a failure to make a timely
  installment payment of taxes that occurs on or after the effective
  date of this Act. The penalty for a failure to make a timely
  installment payment of taxes that occurred before the effective
  date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the failure
  occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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