By:  Cain                                              S.B. No. 869
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the treatment of property appraised by more than one
 1-2     appraisal district in the determination of school district property
 1-3     values by the comptroller of public accounts.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 403.302, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
 1-7           (h)  If the appraised value of property as entered on the
 1-8     appraisal records of the appraisal district that appraises property
 1-9     for the school district is the value calculated under Section
1-10     6.025(e), Tax Code, that value is considered for purposes of this
1-11     section to be, as applicable, the market value or productivity
1-12     value of the property determined by the appraisal district.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.