By Junell, et al.                                     H.B. No. 1037
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of property
 1-3     located in more than one appraisal district.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6.025(c), Tax Code, is amended to read as
 1-6     follows:
 1-7           (c)  The chief appraisers of appraisal districts described by
 1-8     Subsection (a) shall to the extent practicable coordinate their
 1-9     appraisal activities so as to encourage and facilitate the
1-10     appraisal of the same property appraised by each district at the
1-11     same value.  Property appraised by more than one appraisal district
1-12     shall be valued at the lowest appraised value set by the appraisal
1-13     districts for that property.
1-14           SECTION 2.  Sections 6.025(d)-(f), Tax Code, are repealed.
1-15           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2000, and
1-16     applies only to the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of
1-17     property for a tax year that begins on or after that date.
1-18           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.