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."