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.
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             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.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor