By:  Patterson                                         S.B. No. 751
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the qualifications of a member of the board of
    1-2  directors of an appraisal district.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 6.03, Tax Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The appraisal district is governed by a board of five
    1-7  directors.  To be eligible to serve on the board of directors, an
    1-8  individual must be a resident of the district and must have resided
    1-9  in the district for at least two years immediately preceding the
   1-10  date the individual takes office.  To be eligible to serve on the
   1-11  board of an appraisal district established for a county having a
   1-12  population of at least 100,000 but not more than 200,000 bordering
   1-13  the United Mexican States <a county having a population of at least
   1-14  2,000,000 and the Gulf of Mexico>, an individual must be a member
   1-15  of the governing body or an elected officer of a taxing unit
   1-16  entitled to vote on the appointment of board members under this
   1-17  section.  However, an employee of a taxing unit that participates
   1-18  in the district is not eligible to serve on the board unless the
   1-19  individual is also a member of the governing body or an elected
   1-20  official of a taxing unit that participates in the district.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act in the
   1-22  qualifications of members of the board of directors of an appraisal
   1-23  district do not affect the entitlement of a member serving on a
   1-24  board immediately before the effective date of this Act to continue
    2-1  to serve on the board for the remainder of the member's term.  The
    2-2  changes in law apply only to a member appointed on or after the
    2-3  effective date of this Act.  This Act does not prohibit a person
    2-4  who is a member of the board on the effective date of this Act from
    2-5  being reappointed to the board if the person has the qualifications
    2-6  required for a member under the Tax Code as amended by this Act.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.