By Henderson                                           S.B. No. 902
       74R4897 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to selection of the members of an appraisal review board.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 6.41, Tax Code, is amended by amending
    1-5  Subsections (d) and (e) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        (d)  In a district established for a county with a population
    1-8  of less than 100,000, members <Members> of the board are appointed
    1-9  by resolution of a majority of the appraisal district board of
   1-10  directors.  In a district established for a county with a
   1-11  population of 100,000 or more, members of the board are appointed
   1-12  by the commissioners court of the county.  A vacancy on the board
   1-13  is filled in the same manner for the unexpired portion of the term.
   1-14        (e)  Members of the board hold office for terms of two years
   1-15  beginning January 1.  The appraisal district board of directors by
   1-16  resolution, or the commissioners court of the county, as
   1-17  appropriate, shall provide for staggered terms, so that the terms
   1-18  of as close to one-half of the members as possible expire each
   1-19  year.  In making the initial appointments, the board of directors,
   1-20  or the commissioners court of the county, as appropriate, shall
   1-21  designate those members who serve terms of one year.
   1-22        (f)  If a change in  the population of a county according to
   1-23  the most recent federal decennial census requires a change in the
   1-24  authority that appoints the members of the board under Subsection
    2-1  (d), the change in appointment authority takes effect beginning
    2-2  with the appointment of board members  to terms that begin on the
    2-3  next January 1 that is at least 30 days after the date the United
    2-4  States delivers  to the governor the tabulations of county
    2-5  populations for that federal decennial census.  The change in
    2-6  appointment authority does not affect an appointment that occurs
    2-7  before that January 1 or the term of a board member appointed
    2-8  before that January 1.
    2-9        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect January 1, 1996, and
   2-10  applies only to an appointment to an appraisal review board that
   2-11  occurs on or after that date.
   2-12        (b)  The change in the manner of appointing members of an
   2-13  appraisal review board does not affect the appointment of board
   2-14  members serving on a  board before January  1, 1996.
   2-15        (c)  The term of a member of an appraisal review board in a
   2-16  county with a population of 100,000 or more expires January 1,
   2-17  1996.
   2-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-24  passage, and it is so enacted.