By Longoria                                            H.B. No. 408
       74R2709 JD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the selection of appraisal district directors in
    1-3  certain counties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 6.03(d), Tax Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        (d)  The voting entitlement of a taxing unit that is entitled
    1-8  to vote for directors is determined by dividing the total dollar
    1-9  amount of property taxes imposed in the district by the taxing unit
   1-10  for the preceding tax year by the sum of the total dollar amount of
   1-11  property taxes imposed in the district for that year by each taxing
   1-12  unit that is entitled to vote, by multiplying the quotient by
   1-13  1,000, and by rounding the product to the nearest whole number.
   1-14  That number is multiplied by the number of directorships to be
   1-15  filled.  A taxing unit participating in two or more districts is
   1-16  entitled to vote in each district in which it participates, but
   1-17  only the taxes imposed in a district are used to calculate voting
   1-18  entitlement in that district.  For a county in which the
   1-19  commissioners court of the county determines or approves the rate
   1-20  of the property taxes of a hospital district that participates in
   1-21  the same appraisal district as the county, the total dollar amount
   1-22  of property taxes imposed in the appraisal district by the county
   1-23  includes the dollar amount of the property taxes imposed in the
   1-24  appraisal district by the hospital district.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.  The
    2-2  change in law made by this Act applies only to the selection of
    2-3  appraisal district directors on or after that date.  The change in
    2-4  law made by this Act does not affect appraisal district directors
    2-5  selected before that date.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.