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.