By Counts H.B. No. 1783 75R5234 JMM-D 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.