By Hilbert H.B. No. 3616 76R13452 GJH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to amending a petition for judicial review of certain ad 1-3 valorem tax determinations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 42.21, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) A petition that is timely filed under Subsection (a) or 1-8 amended under Subsection (c) may be subsequently amended to: 1-9 (1) correct or change the name of a party; or 1-10 (2) not later than the 120th day before the date of 1-11 trial, identify or describe the property originally involved in the 1-12 appeal. 1-13 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section 1-14 42.21, Tax Code, apply to any proceeding that is pending under 1-15 Chapter 42, Tax Code, on the effective date of this Act or 1-16 initiated on or after that date. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.