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. 1-12 SECTION 2. Sections 6.025(d)-(f), Tax Code, are repealed. 1-13 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2000, and 1-14 applies only to the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of 1-15 property for a tax year that begins on or after that date. 1-16 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1037 was passed by the House on April 13, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1037 on May 13, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1037 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 10, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor