1-1 By: Cain, et al. S.B. No. 379
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 2, 1999; February 4, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 25, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 25, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to eligibility to serve on an appraisal review board.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 6.41, Tax Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (c) To be eligible to serve on the board, an individual must
1-13 be a resident of the district and must have resided in the district
1-14 for at least two years. [A member of the appraisal district board
1-15 of directors or an officer or employee of the comptroller, the
1-16 appraisal office, or a taxing unit is ineligible to serve on the
1-17 board. In an appraisal district established for a county having a
1-18 population of more than 300,000, an individual who has served for
1-19 all or part of three previous terms as a board member or auxiliary
1-20 board member on the appraisal review board, is a former member of
1-21 the governing body or an officer or employee of a taxing unit, or
1-22 is a former director, officer, or employee of the appraisal
1-23 district is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board. In
1-24 an appraisal district established for any other county, an
1-25 individual who has served for all or part of three consecutive
1-26 terms as a board member or auxiliary board member on the appraisal
1-27 review board is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review board
1-28 during a term that begins on the next January 1 following the third
1-29 of those consecutive terms.]
1-30 SECTION 2. Section 6.412, Tax Code, is amended by amending
1-31 Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as
1-32 follows:
1-33 (c) A person is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review
1-34 board if the person is a member of the board of directors, officer,
1-35 or employee of the appraisal district, an employee of the
1-36 comptroller, or a member of the governing body, officer, or
1-37 employee of a taxing unit.
1-38 (d) A person is ineligible to serve on the appraisal review
1-39 board of an appraisal district established for a county having a
1-40 population of more than 300,000:
1-41 (1) if the person [is]:
1-42 (A) has served for all or part of three previous
1-43 terms as a board member or auxiliary board member on the appraisal
1-44 review board; or
1-45 (B) is [(1)] a former member of the board of
1-46 directors, officer, or employee of the appraisal district [or a
1-47 taxing unit for which the appraisal district appraises property];
1-48 or
1-49 (2) if the person served as [a former member of the
1-50 board of directors of the appraisal district; or]
1-51 [(3)] a [former] member of the governing body or
1-52 officer of a taxing unit for which the appraisal district appraises
1-53 property, until the fourth anniversary of the date the person
1-54 ceased to be a member or officer.
1-55 (e) In an appraisal district established for a county having
1-56 a population of 300,000 or less, a person who has served for all or
1-57 part of three consecutive terms as a board member or auxiliary
1-58 board member on the appraisal review board is ineligible to serve
1-59 on the appraisal review board during a term that begins on the next
1-60 January 1 following the third of those consecutive terms.
1-61 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-62 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-63 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-64 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.
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