By Zbranek                                            H.B. No. 2068
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the payment of ad valorem taxes.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 31.03(b), Tax Code, is amended to read as
    1-5  follows:
    1-6        (b)  The split-payment option, if adopted, applies to taxes
    1-7  for all units for which the adopting unit collects taxes, except
    1-8  that the governing body of a school district that has its taxes
    1-9  collected by another taxing unit that adopts the split payment
   1-10  option may, in the manner required by law for official action by
   1-11  the body, adopt the split-payment option or approve of its
   1-12  application to its taxes by the collecting unit.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.