By Driver H.J.R. No. 58
74R2783 JD-F
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1-1 proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the requirement that
1-2 property reappraisal notices include an estimate of the taxes that
1-3 would be imposed on the reappraised property at the preceding
1-4 year's tax rates.
1-5 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 21(c), Article VIII, Texas Constitution,
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (c) The legislature by general law shall require that,
1-9 subject to reasonable exceptions, a property owner be given notice
1-10 of a revaluation of his property <and a reasonable estimate of the
1-11 amount of taxes that would be imposed on his property if the total
1-12 amount of property taxes for the subdivision were not increased
1-13 according to any law enacted pursuant to Subsection (a) of this
1-14 section>. The notice must be given before the procedures required
1-15 in Subsection (a) are instituted.
1-16 SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
1-17 submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 1995.
1-18 The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
1-19 proposition: "The constitutional amendment removing notice of the
1-20 comparative effect of a property tax reappraisal."