By Cain S.B. No. 379
76R4492 SMH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility to serve on an appraisal review board.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 6.41(c), Tax Code, is amended to read as
1-5 follows:
1-6 (c) To be eligible to serve on the board, an individual must
1-7 be a resident of the district and must have resided in the district
1-8 for at least two years. [A member of the appraisal district board
1-9 of directors or an officer or employee of the comptroller, the
1-10 appraisal office, or a taxing unit is ineligible to serve on the
1-11 board. In an appraisal district established for a county having a
1-12 population of more than 300,000, an individual who has served for
1-13 all or part of three previous terms as a board member or auxiliary
1-14 board member on the appraisal review board, is a former member of
1-15 the governing body or an officer or employee of a taxing unit, or
1-16 is a former director, officer, or employee of the appraisal
1-17 district is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board. In
1-18 an appraisal district established for any other county, an
1-19 individual who has served for all or part of three consecutive
1-20 terms as a board member or auxiliary board member on the appraisal
1-21 review board is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board
1-22 during a term that begins on the next January 1 following the third
1-23 of those consecutive terms.]
1-24 SECTION 2. Section 6.412, Tax Code, is amended by amending
2-1 Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as
2-2 follows:
2-3 (c) A person is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review
2-4 board if the person is a member of the board of directors, officer,
2-5 or employee of the appraisal district, an employee of the
2-6 comptroller, or a member of the governing body, officer, or
2-7 employee of a taxing unit.
2-8 (d) A person is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review
2-9 board of an appraisal district established for a county having a
2-10 population of more than 300,000:
2-11 (1) if the person [is]:
2-12 (A) has served for all or part of three previous
2-13 terms as a board member or auxiliary board member on the appraisal
2-14 review board; or
2-15 (B) is [(1)] a former member of the board of
2-16 directors, officer, or employee of the appraisal district [or a
2-17 taxing unit for which the appraisal district appraises property];
2-18 or
2-19 (2) if the person served as [a former member of the
2-20 board of directors of the appraisal district; or]
2-21 [(3)] a [former] member of the governing body or
2-22 officer of a taxing unit for which the appraisal district appraises
2-23 property, until the fourth anniversary of the date the person
2-24 ceased to be a member or officer.
2-25 (e) In an appraisal district established for a county having
2-26 a population of 300,000 or less, a person who has served for all or
2-27 part of three consecutive terms as a board member or auxiliary
3-1 board member on the appraisal review board is ineligible to serve
3-2 on the appraisal review board during a term that begins on the next
3-3 January 1 following the third of those consecutive terms.
3-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-10 passage, and it is so enacted.