By: Parker (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 755
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2017;
May 3, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 22, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 22, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use by certain tax-exempt organizations of certain
payments made in connection with real property transfers to provide
educational activities through certain schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 5.202(c), Property Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) The benefit described by Subsection (b)(9)(C) may
collaterally benefit:
(1) a community composed of:
(A) [(1)] property that is adjacent to the
encumbered property; or
(B) [(2)] property a boundary of which is not
more than 1,000 yards from a boundary of the encumbered property; or
(2) with respect to a payment to a school for
educational activities, property not described by Subdivision (1)
if the encumbered property is located within:
(A) the school's assigned attendance zone; and
(B) a county with a population of more than
650,000 that is adjacent to two counties, each of which has a
population of more than 1.8 million.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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