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.