By Longoria                                             H.B. No. 78

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the selection of appraisal district directors in

 1-3     certain counties.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6.03(d), Tax Code, is amended to read as

 1-6     follows:

 1-7           (d)  The voting entitlement of a taxing unit that is entitled

 1-8     to vote for directors is determined by dividing the total dollar

 1-9     amount of property taxes imposed in the district by the taxing unit

1-10     for the preceding tax year by the sum of the total dollar amount of

1-11     property taxes imposed in the district for that year by each taxing

1-12     unit that is entitled to vote, by multiplying the quotient by

1-13     1,000, and by rounding the product to the nearest whole number.

1-14     That number is multiplied by the number of directorships to be

1-15     filled.  A taxing unit participating in two or more districts is

1-16     entitled to vote in each district in which it participates, but

1-17     only the taxes imposed in a district are used to calculate voting

1-18     entitlement in that district.  For a county in which the

1-19     commissioners court of the county determines or approves the rate

1-20     of the property taxes of a hospital district that participates in

1-21     the same appraisal district as the county, the total dollar amount

1-22     of property taxes imposed in the appraisal district by the county

1-23     includes the dollar amount of the property taxes imposed in the

1-24     appraisal district by the hospital district.

 2-1           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1998.  The

 2-2     change in law made by this Act applies only to the selection of

 2-3     appraisal district directors on or after that date.  The change in

 2-4     law made by this Act does not affect appraisal district directors

 2-5     selected before that date.

 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.