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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