By Gallego H.B. No. 1599
74R3145 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to permitting hospital districts to vote for
1-3 representatives to appraisal district boards.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 6.03(c) and (e), Tax Code, are amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) Members of the board of directors are appointed by vote
1-8 of the governing bodies of the incorporated cities and towns, the
1-9 school districts, the hospital districts with elected board members
1-10 that set the hospital district's tax rate, and, if entitled to
1-11 vote, the conservation and reclamation districts that participate
1-12 in the district and of the county. A governing body may cast all
1-13 its votes for one candidate or distribute them among candidates for
1-14 any number of directorships. Conservation and reclamation
1-15 districts are not entitled to vote unless at least one conservation
1-16 and reclamation district in the district delivers to the chief
1-17 appraiser a written request to nominate and vote on the board of
1-18 directors by June 1 of each odd-numbered year. On receipt of a
1-19 request, the chief appraiser shall certify a list by June 15 of all
1-20 eligible conservation and reclamation districts that are imposing
1-21 taxes and that participate in the district.
1-22 (e) The chief appraiser shall calculate the number of votes
1-23 to which each taxing unit other than a conservation and reclamation
1-24 district is entitled and shall deliver written notice to each of
2-1 those units of its voting entitlement before October 1 of each
2-2 odd-numbered year. The chief appraiser shall deliver the notice:
2-3 (1) to the county judge and each commissioner of the
2-4 county served by the appraisal district;
2-5 (2) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
2-6 each city or town participating in the appraisal district, to the
2-7 city manager of each city or town having a city manager, and to the
2-8 city secretary or clerk, if there is one, of each city or town that
2-9 does not have a city manager; <and>
2-10 (3) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
2-11 each school district participating in the district and to the
2-12 superintendent of those school districts; and
2-13 (4) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
2-14 any other taxing unit that is entitled to vote.
2-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.