By Davila                                       H.B. No. 3118

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the qualifications of an appraisal review board member.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 6.41(c), Tax Code, is amended to read as

 1-5     follows:

 1-6           (c)  To be eligible to serve on the board, an individual must

 1-7     be a resident of the district and must have resided in the district

 1-8     for at least two years.  An individual is not ineligible to serve

 1-9     on the board because the individual is appointed to serve as a

1-10     presiding election judge, alternate presiding judge, or election

1-11     clerk for a single election.  A member of the appraisal district

1-12     board of directors or an officer or employee of the comptroller,

1-13     the appraisal office, or a taxing unit is ineligible to serve on

1-14     the board.  In an appraisal district established for a county

1-15     having a population of more than 300,000, an individual who has

1-16     served for six years [all or part of three previous terms] as a

1-17     board member or auxiliary board member on the appraisal review

1-18     board is ineligible to be appointed to [serve on] the appraisal

1-19     review board.  In an appraisal district established for any other

1-20     county, an individual who has served for all or part of three

1-21     consecutive terms as a board member or auxiliary board member on

1-22     the appraisal review board is ineligible to serve on the appraisal

1-23     review board during a term that begins on the next January 1

1-24     following the third of those consecutive terms.

 2-1           SECTION 2.  Service on an appraisal review board before the

 2-2     effective date of this Act is considered for the purpose of

 2-3     determining an individual's eligibility for appointment to the

 2-4     board on or after the effective date of this Act.

 2-5           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1998.

 2-6           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.