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. 1-36 * * * * *