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Committee adopts substitute allowing chief appraiser to grant cemetery tax exemptions when owner unidentifiable
Summary
A committee substitute to Senate Bill 1,920 was adopted and reported out of the Senate Committee on Local Government. The substitute directs appraisal districts’ chief appraisers to grant property tax exemptions for cemetery land if no applicant exists and the land is identifiable as a cemetery.
The Senate Committee on Local Government adopted a committee substitute to Senate Bill 1,920 on Oct. 12 and reported that substitute to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass and be printed.
The committee substitute says a chief appraiser of an appraisal district shall grant a property tax exemption for land used for human burial if no person applies for the exemption and the appraiser knows or should know, based on a reasonable inspection, that the property is a cemetery and the owner is not identifiable. The substitute permits chief appraisers to consult a county historical commission or a nonprofit organization to…
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