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          AN ACT
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        relating to the authority of certain ex officio members of the board  | 
      
      
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        of directors of a tax increment financing reinvestment zone to  | 
      
      
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        elect not to serve on the board. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Chapter 311, Tax Code, is amended by adding  | 
      
      
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        Section 311.0092 to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               Sec. 311.0092.  NOTICE TO STATE SENATOR AND STATE  | 
      
      
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        REPRESENTATIVE; WAIVER OF SERVICE ON BOARD.  (a)  Not later than  | 
      
      
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        the 90th day after the date a member of the state senate or state  | 
      
      
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        house of representatives who is an ex officio member of the board of  | 
      
      
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        directors of a reinvestment zone under Section 311.009(b) or  | 
      
      
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        311.0091(c), as applicable, is elected to the state senate or the  | 
      
      
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        state house of representatives, as applicable, at a general or  | 
      
      
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        special election, the board shall send to the member of the state  | 
      
      
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        senate or state house of representatives written notice by  | 
      
      
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        certified mail informing the state senator or state representative  | 
      
      
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        of the person's membership on the board. | 
      
      
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               (b)  Notwithstanding Section 311.009(b) or 311.0091(c), as  | 
      
      
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        applicable, a state senator or state representative may elect not  | 
      
      
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        to serve on the board or designate another individual to serve in  | 
      
      
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        the member's place.  If the state senator or state representative  | 
      
      
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        elects not to serve on the board or designate another individual to  | 
      
      
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        serve in the member's place, the state senator or state  | 
      
      
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        representative shall notify the board in writing as soon as  | 
      
      
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        practicable after receipt of the notice under Subsection (a) by  | 
      
      
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        certified mail and may not be counted as a member of the board for  | 
      
      
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        voting or quorum purposes. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | 
      
      
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        ______________________________ | 
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1465 passed the Senate on  | 
      
      
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        April 19, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1465 passed the House on  | 
      
      
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        May 23, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0, one  | 
      
      
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        present not voting. | 
      
      
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        ______________________________ | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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        Approved: | 
      
      
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                  Governor |