1-1 By: Nixon, Wentworth S.B. No. 1642 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; April 6, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; 1-6 April 6, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1642 By: Nixon 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to appraisal review board meetings. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 6.42, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-13 Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: 1-14 (d) A meeting of the appraisal review board held for the 1-15 purpose of educating, orientating, or training the board in 1-16 appraisal district or board operations shall be open to the public. 1-17 The board shall: 1-18 (1) post notice of the meeting in the time and manner 1-19 required of a governmental body by Section 551.043, Government 1-20 Code; and 1-21 (2) allocate a reasonable amount of time for public 1-22 input during the meeting. 1-23 (e) Subsection (d) does not apply to training and 1-24 educational courses supervised by the comptroller under Section 1-25 5.041. 1-26 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-31 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-32 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-33 * * * * *