76R12154 E
By Gallego, Keffer, Staples H.B. No. 79
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 79:
By King of Uvalde C.S.H.B. No. 79
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 Section 6.412(c), Tax Code, is repealed.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.