By: Stiles H.B. No. 1136
73R3287 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to appraisal review boards.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 6.41, Tax Code, is amended to read as
1-5 follows:
1-6 Sec. 6.41. Appraisal Review Board. (a) The appraisal
1-7 review board is established for each appraisal district.
1-8 (b) The board consists of five <three> members. Each county
1-9 commissioner of the county for which the appraisal district is
1-10 established shall appoint one individual, who must be a resident of
1-11 the precinct from which that commissioner is elected, to the board.
1-12 The county judge of the county for which the appraisal district is
1-13 established shall appoint one individual, who must be a resident of
1-14 the county, to the board. A vacancy on the board is filled for the
1-15 unexpired portion of the term by appointment by the officer who
1-16 appointed the individual whose departure from the board caused the
1-17 vacancy <However, the district board of directors by resolution of
1-18 a majority of its members may increase the size of the appraisal
1-19 review board to not more than nine members or, in a district
1-20 established for a county with a population of at least 250,000, to
1-21 not more than 15 members or, in a district established for a county
1-22 with a population of at least one million, to not more than 30
1-23 members or, in a district established for a county with a
1-24 population of at least 1,500,000, to not more than 45 members>.
2-1 (c) To be eligible to serve on the board, an individual must
2-2 be a resident of the district and must have resided in the district
2-3 for at least two years. A member of the appraisal district board
2-4 of directors or an officer or employee of the comptroller, the
2-5 appraisal office, or a taxing unit is ineligible to serve on the
2-6 board. In an appraisal district established for a county having a
2-7 population of more than 50,000, an individual who has served for
2-8 all or part of three previous terms on the appraisal review board
2-9 is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board. In an
2-10 appraisal district established for any other county, an individual
2-11 who has served for all or part of two consecutive terms on the
2-12 appraisal review board is ineligible to serve on the appraisal
2-13 review board during a term that begins on the next January 1
2-14 following the second of those consecutive terms.
2-15 (d) <Members of the board are appointed by resolution of a
2-16 majority of the appraisal district board of directors. A vacancy
2-17 on the board is filled in the same manner for the unexpired portion
2-18 of the term.>
2-19 <(e)> Members of the board hold office for terms of two
2-20 years beginning January 1. The commissioners court <appraisal
2-21 district board of directors> by resolution shall provide for
2-22 staggered terms, so that the terms of as close to one-half of the
2-23 members as possible expire each year. In making the initial
2-24 appointments, the commissioners court <board of directors> shall
2-25 designate those members who serve terms of one year.
2-26 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect January 1, 1994.
2-27 (b) The change in the manner of selection of the members of
3-1 an appraisal review board made by this Act does not affect the
3-2 selection of members who serve on the board before January 1, 1994.
3-3 (c) The term of a member of an appraisal review board
3-4 serving on December 31, 1993, expires on January 1, 1994.
3-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.