Bill Text: TX HJR93 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the assessed value of the residence homestead of a veteran of the United States armed services who served in the armed services for a certain period.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Ways & Means [HJR93 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HJR93-Introduced.html
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By: Thierry | H.J.R. No. 93 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature | ||
to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the assessed value | ||
of the residence homestead of a veteran of the United States armed | ||
services who served in the armed services for a certain period. | ||
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 (p) to read as follows: | ||
(p) The legislature by general law may exempt from ad | ||
valorem taxation $5,000 of the assessed value of the residence | ||
homestead of a veteran of the United States armed services who | ||
served in the armed services for at least three years. 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. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the | ||
legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation $5,000 of the | ||
assessed value of the residence homestead of a veteran of the United | ||
States armed services who served in the armed services for at least | ||
three years." |