By Staples                                            H.B. No. 1160
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                                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.