By Longoria                                            H.B. No. 205
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the selection of appraisal district directors in
 1-3     certain counties.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6.03(d), Tax Code, is amended to read as
 1-6     follows:
 1-7           (d)  The voting entitlement of a taxing unit that is entitled
 1-8     to vote for directors is determined by dividing the total dollar
 1-9     amount of property taxes imposed in the district by the taxing unit
1-10     for the preceding tax year by the sum of the total dollar amount of
1-11     property taxes imposed in the district for that year by each taxing
1-12     unit that is entitled to vote, by multiplying the quotient by
1-13     1,000, and by rounding the product to the nearest whole number.
1-14     That number is multiplied by the number of directorships to be
1-15     filled.  A taxing unit participating in two or more districts is
1-16     entitled to vote in each district in which it participates, but
1-17     only the taxes imposed in a district are used to calculate voting
1-18     entitlement in that district.  For purposes of calculating the
1-19     voting entitlement of a taxing unit that participates in an
1-20     appraisal district established for a county in which the
1-21     commissioners court of the county determines or approves the rate
1-22     of the property taxes of a hospital district that participates in
1-23     the same appraisal district as the county, the total dollar amount
1-24     of property taxes imposed in the appraisal district by the county
 2-1     includes the dollar amount of the property taxes imposed in the
 2-2     appraisal district by the hospital district.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2002.  The
 2-4     change in law made by this Act applies only to the selection of
 2-5     appraisal district directors on or after that date.  The change in
 2-6     law made by this Act does not affect appraisal district directors
 2-7     selected before that date.