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      By Isett                                        H.B. No. 1769

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the exception for certain officers from the

 1-3     registration requirements of The Property Taxation Professional

 1-4     Certification Act.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Article 8885, Revised Statutes, is amended by

 1-7     adding Section 11B to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 11B.  EXCEPTION FOR OFFICER WHO HAS APPROVED AN

 1-9     INTERLOCAL GOVERNMENTAL CONTRACT.  A county tax assessor-collector

1-10     who has approved a contract pursuant to Section 6.24(b), Tax Code,

1-11     providing for another taxing unit or an appraisal district to

1-12     perform duties related to the assessment or collection of taxes for

1-13     the county is exempt from Section 11 of this Act.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.