1-1 By: Henderson S.B. No. 902
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1995; March 6, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 26, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
1-5 Nays 1; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to selection of the members of an appraisal review board.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 6.41, Tax Code, is amended by amending
1-11 Subsections (d) and (e) and by adding Subsection (f) to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 (d) In a district established for a county with a population
1-14 of less than 100,000, members <Members> of the board are appointed
1-15 by resolution of a majority of the appraisal district board of
1-16 directors. In a district established for a county with a
1-17 population of 100,000 or more, members of the board are appointed
1-18 by the commissioners court of the county. A vacancy on the board
1-19 is filled in the same manner for the unexpired portion of the term.
1-20 (e) Members of the board hold office for terms of two years
1-21 beginning January 1. The appraisal district board of directors by
1-22 resolution, or the commissioners court of the county, as
1-23 appropriate, shall provide for staggered terms, so that the terms
1-24 of as close to one-half of the members as possible expire each
1-25 year. In making the initial appointments, the board of directors,
1-26 or the commissioners court of the county, as appropriate, shall
1-27 designate those members who serve terms of one year.
1-28 (f) If a change in the population of a county according to
1-29 the most recent federal decennial census requires a change in the
1-30 authority that appoints the members of the board under Subsection
1-31 (d), the change in appointment authority takes effect beginning
1-32 with the appointment of board members to terms that begin on the
1-33 next January 1 that is at least 30 days after the date the United
1-34 States delivers to the governor the tabulations of county
1-35 populations for that federal decennial census. The change in
1-36 appointment authority does not affect an appointment that occurs
1-37 before that January 1 or the term of a board member appointed
1-38 before that January 1.
1-39 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect January 1, 1996, and
1-40 applies only to an appointment to an appraisal review board that
1-41 occurs on or after that date.
1-42 (b) The change in the manner of appointing members of an
1-43 appraisal review board does not affect the appointment of board
1-44 members serving on a board before January 1, 1996.
1-45 (c) The term of a member of an appraisal review board in a
1-46 county with a population of 100,000 or more expires January 1,
1-47 1996.
1-48 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-49 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-50 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-51 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-52 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-53 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-54 passage, and it is so enacted.
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