Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 1017 amends the Tax Code to provide that persons are ineligible to serve on an appraisal review board if they are former officers, employees, or members of the board of directors of the appraisal district, former officers or employees of a taxing unit for which the appraisal district appraises property, or former members of the governing body of such a taxing unit. They also are ineligible unless they have completed an appraisal review board training and education course. The act directs the comptroller to approve and supervise such courses and authorizes the comptroller to contract for assistance, except that courses may not be provided by appraisal districts or taxing units. The act provides for revision of the comptroller's appraisal review board manual. It prohibits the comptroller from advising a property owner, a property owner's agent, an appraisal district, or an appraisal review board on a matter that the comptroller knows to be the subject of a protest to an appraisal review board.