1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 720 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1997; February 26, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 20, 1997, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 20, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the exception for certain officers from the 1-9 registration requirements of The Property Taxation Professional 1-10 Certification Act. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Article 8885, Revised Statutes, is amended by 1-13 adding Section 11B to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 11B. EXCEPTION FOR OFFICER WHO HAS APPROVED AN 1-15 INTERLOCAL GOVERNMENTAL CONTRACT. A county tax assessor-collector 1-16 who has approved a contract pursuant to Section 6.24(b), Tax Code, 1-17 providing for another taxing unit or an appraisal district to 1-18 perform duties related to the assessment or collection of taxes for 1-19 the county is exempt from Section 11 of this Act. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-26 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-27 * * * * *