1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 337
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 22, 2001; January 23, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 14, 2001, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 14, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to allowing certain hospital districts to vote for
1-9 appraisal district directors.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 6.03, Tax Code, is amended by amending
1-12 Subsections (c) and (e) and adding Subsection (n) to read as
1-13 follows:
1-14 (c) Members of the board of directors other than a county
1-15 assessor-collector serving as a nonvoting director are appointed by
1-16 vote of the governing bodies of the incorporated cities and towns,
1-17 the school districts, and, if entitled to vote, the conservation
1-18 and reclamation districts and the hospital districts that
1-19 participate in the district and of the county. A governing body
1-20 may cast all its votes for one candidate or distribute them among
1-21 candidates for any number of directorships. Conservation and
1-22 reclamation districts are not entitled to vote unless at least one
1-23 conservation and reclamation district in the district delivers to
1-24 the chief appraiser a written request to nominate and vote on the
1-25 board of directors by June 1 of each odd-numbered year. On receipt
1-26 of a request, the chief appraiser shall certify a list by June 15
1-27 of all eligible conservation and reclamation districts that are
1-28 imposing taxes and that participate in the district.
1-29 (e) The chief appraiser shall calculate the number of votes
1-30 to which each taxing unit other than a conservation and reclamation
1-31 district is entitled and shall deliver written notice to each of
1-32 those units of its voting entitlement before October 1 of each
1-33 odd-numbered year. The chief appraiser shall deliver the notice:
1-34 (1) to the county judge and each commissioner of the
1-35 county served by the appraisal district;
1-36 (2) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
1-37 each city or town participating in the appraisal district, to the
1-38 city manager of each city or town having a city manager, and to the
1-39 city secretary or clerk, if there is one, of each city or town that
1-40 does not have a city manager; [and]
1-41 (3) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
1-42 each hospital district participating in the district that is
1-43 entitled to vote; and
1-44 (4) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
1-45 each school district participating in the district and to the
1-46 superintendent of each of those school districts.
1-47 (n) A hospital district is entitled to vote only if:
1-48 (1) the hospital district is located in a county with
1-49 a population of less than 20,000 that is designated in its entirety
1-50 as a medically underserved area by the Texas Department of Health;
1-51 and
1-52 (2) the total amount of property taxes imposed in the
1-53 district by the hospital district for the preceding tax year is at
1-54 least 10 percent of the sum of the total amount of property taxes
1-55 imposed in the district for that year by each taxing unit that
1-56 participates in the district.
1-57 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
1-58 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to the
1-59 selection of appraisal district directors for terms that begin on
1-60 or after January 1, 2002. The change in law made by this Act does
1-61 not affect appraisal district directors selected for terms that
1-62 begin before January 1, 2002.
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