H.B. No. 610
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to registration and continuing education requirements for
    1-3  tax assessor-collectors.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 8885, Revised Statutes, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 11A to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 11A.  EXCEPTION FOR OFFICER OF POPULOUS COUNTY.  A tax
    1-8  assessor-collector of a county with a population of 1,000,000 or
    1-9  more, according to the most recent federal census, is exempt from
   1-10  Section 11 of this Act.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 6, Tax Code, is amended by
   1-12  adding Section 6.235 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 6.235.  CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS.  (a)  During
   1-14  each full term of office, a county assessor-collector of a county
   1-15  with a population of 1,000,000 or more shall complete 64 or more
   1-16  classroom hours of instruction that relate to the duties of the
   1-17  office and that are accredited by the Board of Tax Professional
   1-18  Examiners, the division of the office of comptroller with
   1-19  responsibility for property taxes, the division of the Texas
   1-20  Department of Transportation with responsibility for motor
   1-21  vehicles, or the secretary of state as continuing education credits
   1-22  for the office of county assessor-collector.
   1-23        (b)  A county assessor-collector of a county with a
   1-24  population of 1,000,000 or more shall certify completion of the
    2-1  requirements of Subsection (a) to the executive director of the
    2-2  Board of Tax Professional Examiners.
    2-3        (c)  For the purposes of removal under Subchapter B, Chapter
    2-4  87, Local Government Code, "incompetency" in the case of a county
    2-5  assessor-collector includes the failure to comply with the
    2-6  requirements of this section.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-12  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-13  passage, and it is so enacted.