1-1     By:  Hilbert (Senate Sponsor - Brown)                 H.B. No. 3616
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to amending a petition for judicial review of certain ad
 1-9     valorem tax determinations.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 42.21, Tax Code, is amended by adding
1-12     Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-13           (e)  A petition that is timely filed under Subsection (a)  or
1-14     amended under Subsection (c) may be subsequently amended to:
1-15                 (1)  correct or change the name of a party; or
1-16                 (2)  not later than the 120th day before the date of
1-17     trial, identify or describe the property originally involved in the
1-18     appeal.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section
1-20     42.21, Tax Code, apply to any proceeding that is pending under
1-21     Chapter 42, Tax Code, on the effective date of this Act or
1-22     initiated on or after that date.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
1-30                                  * * * * *