By Counts                                       H.B. No. 1783

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the exemption from registration of certain tax

 1-3     assessor-collectors.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  The Property Tax Professional Certification Act

 1-6     (Article 8885, Revised Statutes) is amended by adding Section 11B

 1-7     to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 11B.  EXCEPTION FOR OFFICER UNDER INTERLOCAL GOVERNMENT

 1-9     CONTRACT.  (a)  A county tax assessor-collector is exempt from

1-10     Section 11 of this Act if the county has contracted under Section

1-11     6.24, Tax Code, for another taxing unit or the appraisal district

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

1-13     for the county.

1-14           (b)  The exemption under this section exists only while the

1-15     contract under Section 6.24, Tax Code, is in effect.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.