1-1     By:  Reyna of Bexar, et al.                             H.B. No. 98
 1-2          (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)
 1-3           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 30, 1999;
 1-4     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-5     Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-6     Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the fiscal year of a school district and to the
1-10     submission to a school district of an estimate of the taxable value
1-11     of school district property.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 44, Education Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 44.0011 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 44.0011.  FISCAL YEAR.  The fiscal year of a school
1-16     district begins on July 1 of each year.
1-17           SECTION 2.  Section 26.01, Tax Code, is amended by adding
1-18     Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-19           (d)  By June 15, the chief appraiser shall prepare and
1-20     certify to the assessor for each school district participating in
1-21     the appraisal district an estimate of the taxable value of school
1-22     district property.  The chief appraiser shall assist each school
1-23     district in determining values of school district property for the
1-24     school district's budgetary purposes.
1-25           SECTION 3.  A school district's fiscal year beginning in 2001
1-26     ends June 30, 2002.  A school district with a fiscal year that
1-27     would have ended on another date in 2002 shall, before July 1,
1-28     2002, take the action necessary to conform the district's fiscal
1-29     year to Section 44.0011, Education Code, as added by this Act.
1-30           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
1-31           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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