By: Gallego H.B. No. 322
73R826 MLM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to permitting hospital districts to vote for
1-3 representatives to appraisal district boards.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 6.03(c) and (e), Tax Code, are amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) Members of the board of directors are appointed by vote
1-8 of the governing bodies of the incorporated cities and towns, the
1-9 school districts other than the county education district, the
1-10 hospital districts, and, if entitled to vote, the conservation and
1-11 reclamation districts that participate in the district and of the
1-12 county. A governing body may cast all its votes for one candidate
1-13 or distribute them among candidates for any number of
1-14 directorships. Conservation and reclamation districts are not
1-15 entitled to vote unless at least one conservation and reclamation
1-16 district in the district delivers to the chief appraiser a written
1-17 request to nominate and vote on the board of directors by June 1 of
1-18 each odd-numbered year. On receipt of a request, the chief
1-19 appraiser shall certify a list by June 15 of all eligible
1-20 conservation and reclamation districts that are imposing taxes and
1-21 that participate in the district.
1-22 (e) The chief appraiser shall calculate the number of votes
1-23 to which each taxing unit other than a conservation and reclamation
1-24 district is entitled and shall deliver written notice to each of
2-1 those units of its voting entitlement before October 1 of each
2-2 odd-numbered year. The chief appraiser shall deliver the notice:
2-3 (1) to the county judge and each commissioner of the
2-4 county served by the appraisal district;
2-5 (2) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
2-6 each city or town participating in the appraisal district, to the
2-7 city manager of each city or town having a city manager, and to the
2-8 city secretary or clerk, if there is one, of each city or town that
2-9 does not have a city manager; <and>
2-10 (3) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
2-11 each school district, other than the county education district,
2-12 participating in the district and to the superintendent of those
2-13 school districts; and
2-14 (4) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
2-15 any other taxing unit that is entitled to vote.
2-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-22 passage, and it is so enacted.