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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