By: Duncan S.B. No. 720 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the exception for certain officers from the 1-2 registration requirements of The Property Taxation Professional 1-3 Certification Act. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 8885, Revised Statutes, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 11B to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 11B. EXCEPTION FOR OFFICER WHO HAS APPROVED AN 1-8 INTERLOCAL GOVERNMENTAL CONTRACT. A county tax assessor-collector 1-9 who has approved a contract pursuant to Section 6.24(b), Tax Code, 1-10 providing for another taxing unit or an appraisal district to 1-11 perform duties related to the assessment or collection of taxes for 1-12 the county is exempt from Section 11 of this Act. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.