By Patterson S.B. No. 1017 75R7184 JD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to training for members of appraisal review boards and to 1-3 the qualifications of the members of certain appraisal review 1-4 boards. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 5, Tax Code, is amended by adding Section 1-7 5.041 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 5.041. TRAINING OF APPRAISAL REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS. (a) 1-9 The comptroller shall: 1-10 (1) provide standards for training and educating 1-11 members of an appraisal review board; 1-12 (2) approve curricula and materials for use in the 1-13 training and education of those persons; and 1-14 (3) establish standards for a certificate of training 1-15 and education completion and for the issuance of a certificate to a 1-16 person who successfully completes the training and education. 1-17 (b) A member of the appraisal review board established for 1-18 an appraisal district in a county having a population of 50,000 or 1-19 more must complete training and education that meets the standards 1-20 established under Subsection (a). A member of the appraisal review 1-21 board may not participate in a hearing conducted by the board 1-22 unless the person has: 1-23 (1) successfully completed the required training and 1-24 education; and 2-1 (2) been issued a certificate of training and 2-2 education completion. 2-3 (c) The training and education required by this section may 2-4 not be provided by an appraisal district or a taxing unit. 2-5 SECTION 2. Section 6.412, Tax Code, is amended by adding 2-6 Subsection (c) to read as follows: 2-7 (c) A person is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review 2-8 board if the person is: 2-9 (1) a former officer or employee of the appraisal 2-10 district or a taxing unit for which the appraisal district 2-11 appraises property; 2-12 (2) a former member of the board of directors of the 2-13 appraisal district; or 2-14 (3) a former member of the governing body of a taxing 2-15 unit for which the appraisal district appraises property. 2-16 SECTION 3. (a) The changes in law made by this Act in the 2-17 qualifications of members of an appraisal review board do not 2-18 affect the entitlement of a member serving on a board immediately 2-19 before the effective date of this Act to continue to serve on the 2-20 board and to participate in board hearings for the remainder of the 2-21 member's term. The changes in law apply only to a member appointed 2-22 on or after the effective date of this Act. This Act does not 2-23 prohibit a person who is a member of an appraisal review board on 2-24 the effective date of this Act from being reappointed to the board 2-25 if the person has the qualifications required for a member under 2-26 the Tax Code as amended by this Act. 2-27 (b) The comptroller of public accounts shall implement 3-1 Section 5.041, Tax Code, as added by this Act, before January 1, 3-2 1998. 3-3 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 3-4 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 3-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.