H.B. No. 755 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. ______________________________ ______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 755 was passed by the House on April 20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. ______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 755 was passed by the Senate on May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. ______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor