1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the correction of an ad valorem tax appraisal roll.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 25.25(b), Tax Code, is amended to read as

 1-5     follows:

 1-6           (b)  The chief appraiser may change the appraisal roll at any

 1-7     time to correct a name or address, a description of property, or a

 1-8     clerical error or other inaccuracy as prescribed by board rule that

 1-9     does not increase [affect] the amount of tax liability.  Before the

1-10     10th day after the end of each calendar quarter, the chief

1-11     appraiser shall submit to the appraisal review board and to the

1-12     board of directors of the appraisal district a written report of

1-13     each change made under this subsection that decreases the tax

1-14     liability of the owner of the property.   The report must include:

1-15                 (1)  a description of each property; and

1-16                 (2)  the name of the owner of that property.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 581 was passed by the House on March

         5, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 581 was passed by the Senate on May

         8, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor