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        relating to the eligibility of a person to serve on the appraisal  | 
      
      
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        review board of an appraisal district. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 6.412(d), Tax Code, is amended to read as  | 
      
      
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        follows: | 
      
      
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               (d)  A person is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review  | 
      
      
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        board of an appraisal district established for a county having a  | 
      
      
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        population of more than 100,000: | 
      
      
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                     (1)  if the person: | 
      
      
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                           (A)  has served for all or part of three previous  | 
      
      
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        terms as a board member or auxiliary board member on the appraisal  | 
      
      
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        review board; or | 
      
      
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                           (B)  is a former member of the board of directors,  | 
      
      
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        officer, or employee of the appraisal district; [or] | 
      
      
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                     (2)  if the person served as a member of the governing  | 
      
      
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        body or officer of a taxing unit for which the appraisal district  | 
      
      
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        appraises property, until the fourth anniversary of the date the  | 
      
      
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        person ceased to be a member or officer; or | 
      
      
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                     (3)  if the person [has ever] appeared before the  | 
      
      
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        appraisal review board for compensation during the two-year period  | 
      
      
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        preceding the date the person is appointed. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 3438 was passed by the House on May 8,  | 
      
      
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        2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 3438 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
      
      
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        22, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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                         Governor        |