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.