1-1 By: Gray (Senate Sponsor - Jackson) H.B. No. 1876 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2001; 1-3 April 17, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 1, 2001, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 1, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the authority of an attorney appointed by a court as a 1-9 master in chancery for a delinquent ad valorem tax suit to practice 1-10 law in that court. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 33.71, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-13 Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-14 (h) Notwithstanding any other law or requirement, an 1-15 attorney appointed a master under this section may practice law in 1-16 the referring court if otherwise qualified to do so. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 1-18 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 1-19 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 1-20 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 1-21 Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-22 * * * * *