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.