By Staples H.B. No. 1426 76R2143 GJH-D 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.