H.B. No. 193




AN ACT

relating to the number of members of an appraisal review board.               
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 6.41(b), Tax Code, is amended to read as 
follows:        
	(b)  The board consists of three members.  However, the 
district board of directors by resolution of a majority of its 
members may increase the size of the appraisal review board to the 
number of members the board of directors considers appropriate [not 
more than nine members or, in a district established for a county 
with a population of at least 250,000, to not more than 40 members 
or, in a district established for a county with a population of at 
least 500,000, to not more than 75 members].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2004.                             




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 193 was passed by the House on May 8, 
2003, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 193 was passed by the Senate on May 
28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor