By: Lindsay S.B. No. 445 2001S0295/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the designation of an agent to represent a property 1-3 owner in certain property tax matters. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1.111, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-7 (j) A property owner may not designate a person who is 1-8 related to a member of an appraisal district board of directors or 1-9 an appraisal review board, to the chief appraiser, or to an 1-10 employee of an appraisal district within the second degree by 1-11 affinity or the third degree by consanguinity, as determined under 1-12 Chapter 573, Government Code, as an agent to represent the owner 1-13 within that appraisal district. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.