Bill Text: TX HJR175 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation property used to control pollution, regardless of whether the property is used to meet or exceed rules or regulations adopted for that purpose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Ways & Means [HJR175 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HJR175-Introduced.html

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88R2634 DRS-D
By: Paul H.J.R. No. 175

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature
to exempt from ad valorem taxation property used to control
pollution, regardless of whether the property is used to meet or
exceed rules or regulations adopted for that purpose.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1-l(a), Article VIII, Texas
Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The legislature by general law may exempt from ad
valorem taxation all or part of real and personal property used,
constructed, acquired, or installed wholly or partly to prevent,
monitor, control, or reduce [meet or exceed rules or regulations
adopted by any environmental protection agency of the United
States, this state, or a political subdivision of this state for the
prevention, monitoring, control, or reduction of] air, water, or
land pollution.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment to authorize the
legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation property used to
control pollution, regardless of whether the property is used to
meet or exceed rules or regulations adopted for that purpose."