By:  Patterson                                        S.B. No. 1014

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the representation of a property owner by an agent in a

 1-2     property tax matter.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 1.111, Tax Code, is amended by adding

 1-5     Subsection (i) to read as follows:

 1-6           (i)  An appraisal review board shall accept and consider a

 1-7     motion or protest filed by an agent of a property owner if an

 1-8     agency authorization is filed at or before the hearing on the

 1-9     motion or protest.

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.