By:  Pitts (Senate Sponsor - Averitt)                             H.B. No. 193
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2003; 
May 13, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Intergovernmental Relations; May 22, 2003, reported favorably by 
the following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 22, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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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