1-1 By: Gallego, Keffer, Staples (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 79
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 7, 1999, reported adversely, with
1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays
1-6 0; May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 79 By: Ellis
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to eligibility to serve on an appraisal review board.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 6.41, Tax Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (c) To be eligible to serve on the board, an individual must
1-15 be a resident of the district and must have resided in the district
1-16 for at least two years. [A member of the appraisal district board
1-17 of directors or an officer or employee of the comptroller, the
1-18 appraisal office, or a taxing unit is ineligible to serve on the
1-19 board. In an appraisal district established for a county having a
1-20 population of more than 300,000, an individual who has served for
1-21 all or part of three previous terms as a board member or auxiliary
1-22 board member on the appraisal review board, is a former member of
1-23 the governing body or an officer or employee of a taxing unit, or
1-24 is a former director, officer, or employee of the appraisal
1-25 district is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board. In
1-26 an appraisal district established for any other county, an
1-27 individual who has served for all or part of three consecutive
1-28 terms as a board member or auxiliary board member on the appraisal
1-29 review board is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board
1-30 during a term that begins on the next January 1 following the third
1-31 of those consecutive terms.]
1-32 SECTION 2. Section 6.412, Tax Code, is amended by amending
1-33 Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as
1-34 follows:
1-35 (c) A person is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review
1-36 board if the person is a member of the board of directors, officer,
1-37 or employee of the appraisal district, an employee of the
1-38 comptroller, or a member of the governing body, officer, or
1-39 employee of a taxing unit.
1-40 (d) A person is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review
1-41 board of an appraisal district established for a county having a
1-42 population of more than 100,000:
1-43 (1) if the person [is]:
1-44 (A) has served for all or part of three previous
1-45 terms as a board member or auxiliary board member on the appraisal
1-46 review board; or
1-47 (B) is [(1)] a former member of the board of
1-48 directors, officer, or employee of the appraisal district [or a
1-49 taxing unit for which the appraisal district appraises property];
1-50 or
1-51 (2) if the person served as [a former member of the
1-52 board of directors of the appraisal district; or]
1-53 [(3)] a [former] member of the governing body or
1-54 officer of a taxing unit for which the appraisal district appraises
1-55 property, until the fourth anniversary of the date the person
1-56 ceased to be a member or officer;[.]
1-57 (4) if the person has ever appeared before the
1-58 appraisal review board for compensation.
1-59 (e) In an appraisal district established for a county having
1-60 a population of 100,000 or less, a person who has served for all or
1-61 part of three consecutive terms as a board member or auxiliary
1-62 board member on the appraisal review board is ineligible to serve
1-63 on the appraisal review board during a term that begins on the next
1-64 January 1 following the third of those consecutive terms.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.
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