By Duncan                                              S.B. No. 213
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to an exception for certain officers from the registration
 1-3     requirements of The Property Taxation Professional Certification
 1-4     Act.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  The Property Taxation Professional Certification
 1-7     Act (Article 8885, Revised Statutes) is amended by adding Section
 1-8     11B to read as follows:
 1-9           Sec. 11B.  EXCEPTION FOR OFFICER WHO HAS APPROVED AN
1-10     INTERLOCAL GOVERNMENTAL CONTRACT.  A county tax assessor-collector
1-11     who has approved a contract under Section 6.24(b), Tax Code,
1-12     providing for another taxing unit or an appraisal district to
1-13     perform duties related to the assessment or collection of taxes for
1-14     the county is exempt from Section 11 of this Act.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.