73R873 JD-D
          By D. Smith of Harris                                  H.B. No. 301
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to venue in certain ad valorem tax proceedings.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 42.22, Tax Code, is amended to read as
    1-5  follows:
    1-6        Sec. 42.22.  VENUE.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsections
    1-7  (b) and (c), venue <Venue> is in the county in which the appraisal
    1-8  review board that issued the order appealed is located.
    1-9        (b)  Venue of an action brought under Section 42.01(1) is in
   1-10  the county in which the property is located or in the county in
   1-11  which the appraisal review board that issued the order is located.
   1-12        (c)  Venue is in Travis County if the order appealed was
   1-13  issued by the comptroller.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.