By Duncan S.B. No. 213 76R1749 SMH-D 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.