By Walker H.B. No. 812
77R1255 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to allowing certain hospital districts to vote for
1-3 appraisal district directors.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 6.03, Tax Code, is amended by amending
1-6 Subsections (c) and (e) and by adding Subsection (n) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (c) Members of the board of directors other than a county
1-9 assessor-collector serving as a nonvoting director are appointed by
1-10 vote of the governing bodies of the incorporated cities and towns,
1-11 the school districts, and, if entitled to vote, the conservation
1-12 and reclamation districts and the hospital districts that
1-13 participate in the district and of the county. A governing body
1-14 may cast all its votes for one candidate or distribute them among
1-15 candidates for any number of directorships. Conservation and
1-16 reclamation districts are not entitled to vote unless at least one
1-17 conservation and reclamation district in the district delivers to
1-18 the chief appraiser a written request to nominate and vote on the
1-19 board of directors by June 1 of each odd-numbered year. On receipt
1-20 of a request, the chief appraiser shall certify a list by June 15
1-21 of all eligible conservation and reclamation districts that are
1-22 imposing taxes and that participate in the district.
1-23 (e) The chief appraiser shall calculate the number of votes
1-24 to which each taxing unit other than a conservation and reclamation
2-1 district is entitled and shall deliver written notice to each of
2-2 those units of its voting entitlement before October 1 of each
2-3 odd-numbered year. The chief appraiser shall deliver the notice:
2-4 (1) to the county judge and each commissioner of the
2-5 county served by the appraisal district;
2-6 (2) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
2-7 each city or town participating in the appraisal district, to the
2-8 city manager of each city or town having a city manager, and to the
2-9 city secretary or clerk, if there is one, of each city or town that
2-10 does not have a city manager; [and]
2-11 (3) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
2-12 each hospital district participating in the district that is
2-13 entitled to vote; and
2-14 (4) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
2-15 each school district participating in the district and to the
2-16 superintendent of each of those school districts.
2-17 (n) A hospital district is entitled to vote only if:
2-18 (1) the hospital district is located in a county with
2-19 a population of less than 20,000 that is designated in its entirety
2-20 as a medically underserved area by the Texas Department of Health;
2-21 and
2-22 (2) the total amount of property taxes imposed in the
2-23 district by the hospital district for the preceding tax year is at
2-24 least 10 percent of the sum of the total amount of property taxes
2-25 imposed in the district for that year by each taxing unit that
2-26 participates in the district.
2-27 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
3-1 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to the
3-2 selection of appraisal district directors for terms that begin on
3-3 or after January 1, 2002. The change in law made by this Act does
3-4 not affect appraisal district directors selected for terms that
3-5 begin before January 1, 2002.