1-1     By:  Patterson                                        S.B. No. 1014

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 1997; March 11, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; April 1, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;

 1-6     April 1, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1014                  By:  Carona

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the representation of a property owner by an agent in a

1-11     property tax matter.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 1.111, Tax Code, is amended by adding

1-14     Subsection (i) to read as follows:

1-15           (i)  An appraisal review board shall accept and consider a

1-16     motion or protest filed by an agent of a property owner if an

1-17     agency authorization is filed at or before the hearing on the

1-18     motion or protest.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  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.

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