1-1 By: Craddick (Senate Sponsor - Turner) H.B. No. 674
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
1-3 April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Finance; May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the eligibility of certain persons to serve as members
1-9 of an appraisal review board.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 6.41(c), Tax Code, is amended to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 (c) To be eligible to serve on the board, an individual must
1-14 be a resident of the district and must have resided in the district
1-15 for at least two years. A member of the appraisal district board
1-16 of directors or an officer or employee of the comptroller, the
1-17 appraisal office, or a taxing unit is ineligible to serve on the
1-18 board. In an appraisal district established for a county having a
1-19 population of more than 300,000 <50,000>, an individual who has
1-20 served for all or part of three previous terms on the appraisal
1-21 review board is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board.
1-22 In an appraisal district established for any other county, an
1-23 individual who has served for all or part of three <two>
1-24 consecutive terms on the appraisal review board is ineligible to
1-25 serve on the appraisal review board during a term that begins on
1-26 the next January 1 following the third <second> of those
1-27 consecutive terms.
1-28 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act in the
1-29 qualifications for appointment of members of the board of directors
1-30 of an appraisal district do not affect the entitlement of a member
1-31 serving on a board immediately before the effective date of this
1-32 Act to continue to carry out the functions of the board for the
1-33 remainder of the member's term. The changes in law apply only to a
1-34 member appointed on or after the effective date of this Act. This
1-35 Act does not prohibit a person who is a member of a board on the
1-36 effective date of this Act from being reappointed to the board if
1-37 the person has the qualifications required for a member under the
1-38 Tax Code as amended by this Act.
1-39 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
1-40 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-41 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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