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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2025; February 13, 2025, |
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| 3 | + | read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government; |
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| 4 | + | March 24, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, |
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| 5 | + | Nays 0; March 24, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 6 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 7 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 11 | | relating to the prohibition on posting on the Internet information |
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| 9 | 12 | | held by an appraisal district regarding certain residential |
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| 10 | 13 | | property. |
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| 11 | 14 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 15 | | SECTION 1. Section 25.027(b), Tax Code, is amended to read |
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| 13 | 16 | | as follows: |
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| 14 | 17 | | (b) Subsection (a)(1) does not apply to: |
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| 15 | 18 | | (1) an aerial photograph that depicts [five or] more |
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| 16 | 19 | | than one separately owned building; |
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| 17 | 20 | | (2) a street level photograph of only the exterior of a |
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| 18 | 21 | | building; or |
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| 19 | 22 | | (3) a field record or overhead sketch of the property |
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| 20 | 23 | | that depicts only: |
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| 21 | 24 | | (A) the outline of one or more buildings on the |
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| 22 | 25 | | property; |
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| 23 | 26 | | (B) the general landscape features of the |
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| 24 | 27 | | property, including ponds, pools, and walls; and |
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| 25 | 28 | | (C) the dimensions of or distances between the |
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| 26 | 29 | | buildings and features depicted [buildings]. |
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| 27 | 30 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 28 | 31 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 29 | 32 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 30 | 33 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 31 | 34 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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