By Uher                                         H.B. No. 1322

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to changing the name of the county tax assessor-collector

 1-3     to county comptroller.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6.21, Tax Code, is amended to read as

 1-6     follows:

 1-7           Sec. 6.21.  COUNTY COMPTROLLER [ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR].  (a)

 1-8     The county comptroller [assessor-collector] for a county is

 1-9     determined as provided by Article VIII, Sections 14, 16, and 16a,

1-10     of the Texas Constitution.

1-11           (b)  If a county with a population of less than 10,000

1-12     authorizes a separate county comptroller [assessor-collector] as

1-13     provided by Article VIII, Section 16a, of the Texas Constitution,

1-14     the commissioners court may appoint a county comptroller

1-15     [assessor-collector] to serve until a county comptroller [an

1-16     assessor-collector] is elected at the next general election and has

1-17     qualified.

1-18           (c)  Any statutory reference to the county tax

1-19     assessor-collector means the county comptroller.

1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect December 1, 1997, but only

1-21     if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 75th Legislature,

1-22     Regular Session, 1997, to change the name of the county tax

1-23     assessor-collector to county comptroller, takes effect.  If that

1-24     amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect.

 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

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

 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.