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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