76R12619 CAS-D By Reyna of Bexar, Farabee, Maxey, H.B. No. 98 Lengefeld, Staples Substitute the following for H.B. No. 98: By Dunnam C.S.H.B. No. 98 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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 August 1 of each year. 1-10 SECTION 2. Section 26.01, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-11 Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-12 (d) By June 15, the chief appraiser shall prepare and 1-13 certify to the assessor for each school district participating in 1-14 the appraisal district an estimate of the taxable value of school 1-15 district property. The chief appraiser shall assist each school 1-16 district in determining values of school district property for the 1-17 school district's budgetary purposes. 1-18 SECTION 3. A school district's fiscal year beginning in 2001 1-19 ends July 31, 2002. A school district with a fiscal year that 1-20 would have ended on another date in 2002 shall, before August 1, 1-21 2002, take the action necessary to conform the district's fiscal 1-22 year to Section 44.0011, Education Code, as added by this Act. 1-23 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-24 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.