By Davila H.B. No. 3118
75R7595 SMH-D
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.