1-1 By: Gallego, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Sims) H.B. No. 322
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 24, 1993;
1-3 March 25, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to permitting hospital districts to vote for
1-23 representatives to appraisal district boards.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Sections 6.03(c) and (e), Tax Code, are amended
1-26 to read as follows:
1-27 (c) Members of the board of directors are appointed by vote
1-28 of the governing bodies of the incorporated cities and towns, the
1-29 school districts other than the county education district, any
1-30 hospital districts with elected board members that set the hospital
1-31 district's tax rate, and, if entitled to vote, the conservation and
1-32 reclamation districts that participate in the district and of the
1-33 county. A governing body may cast all its votes for one candidate
1-34 or distribute them among candidates for any number of
1-35 directorships. Conservation and reclamation districts are not
1-36 entitled to vote unless at least one conservation and reclamation
1-37 district in the district delivers to the chief appraiser a written
1-38 request to nominate and vote on the board of directors by June 1 of
1-39 each odd-numbered year. On receipt of a request, the chief
1-40 appraiser shall certify a list by June 15 of all eligible
1-41 conservation and reclamation districts that are imposing taxes and
1-42 that participate in the district.
1-43 (e) The chief appraiser shall calculate the number of votes
1-44 to which each taxing unit other than a conservation and reclamation
1-45 district is entitled and shall deliver written notice to each of
1-46 those units of its voting entitlement before October 1 of each
1-47 odd-numbered year. The chief appraiser shall deliver the notice:
1-48 (1) to the county judge and each commissioner of the
1-49 county served by the appraisal district;
1-50 (2) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
1-51 each city or town participating in the appraisal district, to the
1-52 city manager of each city or town having a city manager, and to the
1-53 city secretary or clerk, if there is one, of each city or town that
1-54 does not have a city manager; <and>
1-55 (3) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
1-56 each school district, other than the county education district,
1-57 participating in the district and to the superintendent of those
1-58 school districts; and
1-59 (4) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
1-60 any other taxing unit that is entitled to vote.
1-61 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-62 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-63 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-64 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-65 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-66 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-67 passage, and it is so enacted.
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2-1 Austin,
2-2 Texas
2-3 May 25, 1993
2-4 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-5 President of the Senate
2-6 Sir:
2-7 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
2-8 referred H.B. No. 322, have had the same under consideration, and I
2-9 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
2-10 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
2-11 Armbrister,
2-12 Chairman
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2-14 WITNESSES
2-15 FOR AGAINST ON
2-16 ___________________________________________________________________
2-17 Name: Janie McMahan x
2-18 Representing: Tx Hospital Association
2-19 City: Austin
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2-21 Name: Jim Allison
2-22 Representing: County Judges & Comm. Assoc.
2-23 City: Austin
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