By Craddick                                            H.B. No. 674
       74R3283 JD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the eligibility of certain persons to serve as members
    1-3  of an appraisal review board.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 6.41(c), Tax Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        (c)  To be eligible to serve on the board, an individual must
    1-8  be a resident of the district and must have resided in the district
    1-9  for at least two years.  A member of the appraisal district board
   1-10  of directors or an officer or employee of the comptroller, the
   1-11  appraisal office, or a taxing unit is ineligible to serve on the
   1-12  board.  An <In an appraisal district established for a county
   1-13  having a population of more than 50,000, an individual who has
   1-14  served for all or part of three previous terms on the appraisal
   1-15  review board is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board.
   1-16  In an appraisal district established for any other county,
   1-17  an> individual who has served for all or part of three <two>
   1-18  consecutive terms on the appraisal review board is ineligible to
   1-19  serve on the appraisal review board during a term that begins on
   1-20  the next January 1 following the third <second> of those
   1-21  consecutive terms.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act in the
   1-23  qualifications for appointment of members of the board of directors
   1-24  of an appraisal district do not affect the entitlement of a member
    2-1  serving on a board immediately before the effective date of this
    2-2  Act to continue to carry out the functions of the board for the
    2-3  remainder of the member's term.  The changes in law apply only to a
    2-4  member appointed on or after the effective date of this Act.  This
    2-5  Act does not prohibit a person who is a member of a board on the
    2-6  effective date of this Act from being reappointed to the board if
    2-7  the person has the qualifications required for a member under the
    2-8  Tax Code as amended by this Act.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.