88R14313 RDS-D
 
  By: Price H.B. No. 4172
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of the governing body of a hospital
  district to vote for candidates for director of the appraisal
  district in which the hospital district participates.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 6.03(c) and (e), Tax Code, are amended
  to read as follows:
         (c)  Members of the board of directors other than a county
  assessor-collector serving as a nonvoting director are appointed by
  vote of the governing bodies of the incorporated cities and towns,
  the school districts, the junior college districts, the hospital
  districts, and, if entitled to vote, the conservation and
  reclamation districts that participate in the district and of the
  county.  A governing body may cast all its votes for one candidate
  or distribute them among candidates for any number of
  directorships.  Conservation and reclamation districts are not
  entitled to vote unless at least one conservation and reclamation
  district in the district delivers to the chief appraiser a written
  request to nominate and vote on the board of directors by June 1 of
  each odd-numbered year.  On receipt of a request, the chief
  appraiser shall certify a list by June 15 of all eligible
  conservation and reclamation districts that are imposing taxes and
  that participate in the district.
         (e)  The chief appraiser shall calculate the number of votes
  to which each taxing unit other than a conservation and reclamation
  district is entitled and shall deliver written notice to each of
  those taxing units of its voting entitlement before October 1 of
  each odd-numbered year.  The chief appraiser shall deliver the
  notice:
               (1)  to the county judge and each commissioner of the
  county served by the appraisal district;
               (2)  to the presiding officer of the governing body of
  each city or town participating in the appraisal district, to the
  city manager of each city or town having a city manager, and to the
  city secretary or clerk, if there is one, of each city or town that
  does not have a city manager;
               (3)  to the presiding officer of the governing body of
  each school district participating in the district and to the
  superintendent of those school districts; [and]
               (4)  to the presiding officer of the governing body of
  each junior college district participating in the district and to
  the president, chancellor, or other chief executive officer of
  those junior college districts; and 
               (5)  to the presiding officer of the governing body and
  the hospital administrator of each hospital district participating
  in the district.
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  the selection of appraisal district directors for terms that begin
  on or after January 1, 2024.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.