By Goodman H.B. No. 2192 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to appraisal district boundary disputes. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Sec. 6.02 of the Tax Code is amended to read as 1-5 follows: 1-6 (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, the 1-7 appraisal district's boundaries are the same as the county's 1-8 boundaries. 1-9 (1) In the event property is appraised by two or more 1-10 adjacent central appraisal districts and certified to their 1-11 respective taxing jurisdictions within their county for ad valorem 1-12 taxing purposes, the affected property owner may pay either taxing 1-13 jurisdiction the amount of tax assessed on the affected property. 1-14 (2) In the event that the affected property owner pays 1-15 either taxing jurisdiction the tax assessed on the affected 1-16 property, the property owner shall not have any liability to the 1-17 taxing jurisdiction which the property owner elected not to pay for 1-18 any assessed ad valorem taxes, penalties or interest. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.