By Gallego, Keffer, Staples                             H.B. No. 79
         76R12154 E                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the eligibility of a person to serve on an appraisal
 1-3     review board.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6.41(c), Tax Code, is amended to read as
 1-6     follows:
 1-7           (c)  To be eligible to serve on the board, an individual must
 1-8     be a resident of the district and must have resided in the district
 1-9     for at least two years.  A member of the appraisal district board
1-10     of directors or an officer or employee of the comptroller, the
1-11     appraisal office, or a taxing unit is ineligible to serve on the
1-12     board.  In an appraisal district established for a county having a
1-13     population of more than 125,000 [300,000], an individual who has
1-14     served for all or part of three previous terms as a board member or
1-15     auxiliary  board member on the appraisal review board, is a former
1-16     member of the governing body or an officer or employee of a taxing
1-17     unit, or is a former director, officer, or employee of the
1-18     appraisal district is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review
1-19     board.  In an appraisal district established for any other county,
1-20     an individual who has served for all or part of three consecutive
1-21     terms as a board member or auxiliary board member on the appraisal
1-22     review board is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board
1-23     during a term that begins on the next January 1 following the third
1-24     of those consecutive terms.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  Section 6.412(c), Tax Code, is repealed.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act in the
 2-3     qualifications of members of an appraisal review board do not
 2-4     affect the entitlement of a member serving on a board immediately
 2-5     before the effective date of this Act to continue to serve on the
 2-6     board for the remainder of the member's term.  The changes in law
 2-7     made by this Act apply only to a member appointed on or after the
 2-8     effective date of this Act.
 2-9           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15     passage, and it is so enacted.