Texas 2021 87th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3777 Introduced / Bill

Filed 03/11/2021

                    87R7694 SRA-D
 By: Noble H.B. No. 3777


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to eligible costs and expenses for purposes of the
 franchise tax credit for the certified rehabilitation of certified
 historic structures.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 171.901(4), Tax Code, as effective
 January 1, 2022, is redesignated as Section 171.9015, Tax Code, and
 amended to read as follows:
 Sec. 171.9015.  ELIGIBLE COSTS AND EXPENSES. (a) Subject to
 Subsections (b) and (c), in this subchapter, "eligible [(4)
 "Eligible] costs and expenses" means qualified rehabilitation
 expenditures as defined by Section 47(c)(2), Internal Revenue Code.
 (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), the [, except that
 the] depreciation and tax-exempt use provisions of Section
 47(c)(2), Internal Revenue Code, [that section] do not apply to
 costs and expenses incurred by an entity exempt from the tax imposed
 under this chapter by Section 171.063, and those costs and expenses
 are eligible costs and expenses if the other provisions of Section
 47(c)(2), Internal Revenue Code, are satisfied.
 (c)  Expenditures by an entity described by Subsection (b) to
 rehabilitate a structure that is leased to a tax-exempt entity in a
 disqualified lease, as those terms are defined by Section 168(h),
 Internal Revenue Code, are not eligible costs and expenses.
 SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a report originally due
 on or after the effective date of this Act.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2022.