By Staples                                            H.B. No. 1426
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to eligibility for appointment to certain appraisal review
 1-3     boards.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6.412, Tax Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  Subsection (c) does not apply to an appraisal review
 1-8     board of an appraisal district established for a county having a
 1-9     population of 100,000 or less.  A person is ineligible to serve on
1-10     the appraisal review board of an appraisal district established for
1-11     a county having a population of 100,000 or less if the person is:
1-12                 (1)  a former officer or employee of the appraisal
1-13     district;
1-14                 (2)  a former member of the board of directors of the
1-15     appraisal district;
1-16                 (3)  a former officer, other than a former member of
1-17     the governing body, of a taxing unit for which the appraisal
1-18     district appraises property;
1-19                 (4)  a former member of the governing body of a taxing
1-20     unit for which the appraisal district appraises property, unless
1-21     the fifth anniversary of the date the person ceased to be a member
1-22     of the governing body has occurred; or
1-23                 (5)  a former employee of a taxing unit for which the
1-24     appraisal district appraises property, unless the fifth anniversary
 2-1     of the date the person ceased to be an employee of the taxing unit
 2-2     has occurred.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.