By Staples H.B. No. 1160 76R1067 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the fiscal year of a school district and to the 1-3 submission of a preliminary appraisal roll to a school district. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 44, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 44.0011 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 44.0011. FISCAL YEAR. The fiscal year of a school 1-8 district begins on July 1 of each year. 1-9 SECTION 2. Section 26.01, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-10 Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-11 (d) By June 15, the chief appraiser shall prepare and 1-12 certify to the assessor for each school district participating in 1-13 the appraisal district a preliminary appraisal roll for the school 1-14 district. The chief appraiser shall assist each school district in 1-15 determining values of school district property for the school 1-16 district's budgetary purposes. 1-17 SECTION 3. A school district's fiscal year beginning in 1999 1-18 ends June 30, 2000. A school district with a fiscal year that 1-19 would have ended on another date in 2000 shall, before July 1, 1-20 2000, take the action necessary to conform the district's fiscal 1-21 year to Section 44.0011, Education Code, as added by this Act. 1-22 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-23 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.