By Armbrister S.B. No. 1119 76R7094 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the publication of certain tax and financial 1-3 information required prior to the adoption of an ad valorem tax 1-4 rate by a taxing unit. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 26.04, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-7 Subsection (k) to read as follows: 1-8 (k) If the officer designated by the governing body of a 1-9 taxing unit to perform the duties prescribed by Subsection (c) for 1-10 the unit is the assessor-collector for a county, the 1-11 assessor-collector has exclusive authority to determine for the 1-12 taxing unit in which newspaper notice under Subsection (e) is 1-13 published. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2000. 1-15 SECTION 3. 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.