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.