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78R5367 RCJ-F
By: Griggs H.B. No. 2043
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the procedures for appointment of the board of
directors of an appraisal district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 6.03(j)-(l), Tax Code, are amended to
read as follows:
(j) Before October 30, the chief appraiser shall prepare a
ballot, listing the candidates whose names were timely submitted
under Subsections (g) and, if applicable, (h) or (i) alphabetically
according to the first letter in each candidate's surname, and
shall deliver a copy of the ballot to the presiding officer of the
governing body of each taxing unit that is entitled to vote.
(k) The governing body of each taxing unit entitled to vote
shall determine its vote by resolution and submit it to the chief
appraiser before December [November] 15. The chief appraiser shall
count the votes, declare the five candidates who receive the
largest cumulative vote totals elected, and submit the results
before December 31 [1] to the governing body of each taxing unit in
the district and to the candidates. For purposes of determining the
number of votes received by the candidates, the candidate receiving
the most votes of the conservation and reclamation districts is
considered to have received all of the votes cast by conservation
and reclamation districts and the other candidates are considered
not to have received any votes of the conservation and reclamation
districts. The chief appraiser shall resolve a tie vote by any
method of chance.
(l) If a vacancy occurs on the board of directors other than
a vacancy in the position held by a county assessor-collector
serving as a nonvoting director, each taxing unit that is entitled
to vote by this section may nominate by resolution adopted by its
governing body a candidate to fill the vacancy. The unit shall
submit the name of its nominee to the chief appraiser within 45 [10]
days after notification from the board of directors of the
existence of the vacancy, and the chief appraiser shall prepare and
deliver to the board of directors within the next five days a list
of the nominees. The board of directors shall elect by majority
vote of its members one of the nominees to fill the vacancy.
SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect immediately if it
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate
effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2003.
(b) Appraisal district directors shall be appointed as
provided by Sections 6.03(j) and (k), Tax Code, as amended by this
Act, beginning with the appointment of appraisal district directors
in 2003 for terms beginning January 1, 2004.
(c) The change in law made by Section 6.03(l), Tax Code, as
amended by this Act, applies only to a vacancy on the board of
directors of an appraisal district that occurs on or after the
effective date of this Act. A vacancy that occurs on the board of
directors of an appraisal district before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
that purpose.