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SJR46 • 2025

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Nichols
Last action
2025-04-14
Official status
04/14/2025 S Left pending in committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.

What This Bill Does

  • Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  2. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  3. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  4. 2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  5. 2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Local Government

  6. 2025-02-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  7. 2025-01-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  8. 2025-01-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) SJR 46 - Introduced version - Bill Text

89R1621 LHC-D

By: Nichols

S.J.R. No. 46

A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature

to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property

consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale

at retail.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Article VIII, Texas Constitution, is amended by

adding Section 1-s to read as follows:

Sec.

1-s.

(a)

The legislature by general law may exempt

from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of

animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.

(b)

The legislature by general law may provide additional

eligibility requirements for the exemption authorized by this

section.

SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be

submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025.

The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the

proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the

legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal

property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property

for sale at retail."