By Junell                                             H.B. No. 1037
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                                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.  The chief appraisers are not required to agree as to
1-12     the appraised value of the property.  If the chief appraisers
1-13     initially disagree as to the appraised value of a parcel or item of
1-14     property, a chief appraiser may not enter as the value of the
1-15     property on the appraisal records of the appraisal district the
1-16     value of the property as determined by another chief appraiser
1-17     unless the chief appraiser:
1-18                 (1)  examines the information on which the other chief
1-19     appraiser's determination of value was made; and
1-20                 (2)  finds that that determination is correct.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2000, and
1-22     applies only to the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of
1-23     property for a tax year that begins on or after that date.
1-24           SECTION 3.  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.