Floor Packet Page No. 126
      Amend CSHB 4, in Article 2 of the bill, by adding a new
section, appropriately numbered, to read as follows and renumbering
subsequent sections of the bill appropriately:
      SECTION 2.____.  Section 31.01, Tax Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (l) to read as follows:
      (l)  This subsection applies only to a taxing unit in which
the voters of the unit, at an election held on the question of the
use of revenue from an expanded sales tax base, required the
expanded sales tax base to be used to reduce ad valorem taxes of
the taxing unit, as required by House Bill No. 4, Acts of the 75th
Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.  In addition to the information
specified by Subsection (c), a tax bill for 1997 or 1998 taxes of a
taxing unit or the separate statement accompanying a tax bill for
1997 or 1998 taxes of the unit shall include an explanation of any
effect on the 1997 or 1998 tax rate of the unit caused by the
results of the election, and an estimate of any amount by which the
unit's 1997 or 1998 taxes on the property are reduced from the
taxes on the property in the preceding year because of that
election.  If a tax bill for taxes containing an explanation
required by this subsection is mailed to a mortgagee of a property,
the mortgagee shall mail a copy of the tax bill or accompanying
statement containing the explanation to the owner of the property
before the 31st day after the date the mortgagee receives the tax
bill.  This subsection expires January 1, 1999.