Bill Text: TX SB1814 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the current debt rate and tax rate of a taxing unit for ad valorem tax purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1814 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1814-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1814
(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2023; March 20, 2023, read
first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
April 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 17, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the definition of current debt service for the purpose
of calculating the current debt rate of a taxing unit for ad valorem
tax purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 26.012(3), Tax Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(3) "Current debt service" means the minimum dollar
amount required to be expended for debt service for the current
year.
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to ad valorem taxes imposed
for an ad valorem tax year that begins on or after the effective
date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2024.
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