By Hilbert                                            H.B. No. 3616
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                                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 without
 1-9     limitation for any reason, including:
1-10                 (1)  the correction or change of a named party;
1-11                 (2)  the identification or description of the property
1-12     involved in the appeal; and
1-13                 (3)  the addition of any valid cause of action or claim
1-14     for relief.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section
1-16     42.21, Tax Code, apply to any proceeding that is pending under
1-17     Chapter 42 of that code on the effective date of this Act or
1-18     initiated on or after that date.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.