1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the fiscal year of a school district and to the 1-3 submission to a school district of an estimate of the taxable value 1-4 of school district property. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 44, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 44.0011 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 44.0011. FISCAL YEAR. The fiscal year of a school 1-9 district begins on July 1 or September 1 of each year, as 1-10 determined by the board of trustees of the district. The 1-11 commissioner may adopt rules concerning the submission of 1-12 information by a district under Chapter 39 or 42 based on the 1-13 fiscal year of the district. 1-14 SECTION 2. Section 26.01, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-15 Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-16 (d) By June 15, the chief appraiser shall prepare and 1-17 certify to the assessor for each school district participating in 1-18 the appraisal district an estimate of the taxable value of school 1-19 district property. The chief appraiser shall assist each school 1-20 district in determining values of school district property for the 1-21 school district's budgetary purposes. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 98 was passed by the House on April 29, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 98 on May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 98 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 20, 1999, by a viva-voce vote. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor