By Goodman                                             H.B. No. 610
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 610:
          By Longoria                                        C.S.H.B. No. 610
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to tax assessor-collectors who are required to register
    1-3  with the Board of Tax Professional Examiners.
    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 is exempt from Section 11 of this
    1-9  Act.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 6, Tax Code, is amended by
   1-11  adding Section 6.235 to read as follows:
   1-12        Sec. 6.235.  CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS.  (a)  During
   1-13  each full term of office, a county assessor-collector shall
   1-14  complete 64 or more classroom hours of instruction that relate to
   1-15  the duties of the office and that are accredited by the Board of
   1-16  Tax Professional Examiners, the Division of the office of
   1-17  comptroller with responsibility for property taxes, the division of
   1-18  the Texas Department of Transportation with responsibility for
   1-19  motor vehicles, or the secretary of state as continuing education
   1-20  credits for the office of county assessor-collector.
   1-21        (b)  A county assessor-collector shall, before the date of
   1-22  the beginning of a full term, certify completion of the
   1-23  requirements of Subsection (a) to the executive director of the
   1-24  Board of Tax Professional Examiners.
    2-1        (c)  For the purposes of removal under Subchapter B, Chapter
    2-2  87, Local Government Code, "incompetency" in the case of a county
    2-3  assessor-collector includes the failure to comply with the
    2-4  requirements of this section.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.