By Craddick H.B. No. 3014 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to appraisal review board protest hearing and good cause 1-3 hearing to issue subpoenas. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1: Section 41.46, Property Tax Code, Subsection (c) 1-6 is amended to read: 1-7 (c) An appraisal review board may not issue a subpoena under 1-8 this section unless the board holds a hearing at which the board 1-9 determines that good cause exists for the issuance of a subpoena. 1-10 The appraisal review board before which a good cause hearing is 1-11 scheduled shall deliver written notice to the party being 1-12 subpoenaed and parties to the protest of the date, time, and place 1-13 of the hearing. The board shall deliver the notice not later than 1-14 the 15th day before the date of the good cause hearing. The party 1-15 being subpoenaed must have an opportunity to be heard at the good 1-16 cause hearing. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.