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         By Hilbert                                            H.B. No. 3616
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3616:
         By Hilbert                                        C.S.H.B. No. 3616
                                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.