By: Staples S.B. No. 902
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the term of a contract between an appraisal district and
the financial entity designated as the depository for the district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 6.09, Tax Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) The board shall solicit bids to be designated as
depository for the district. The depository when designated shall
serve for a term of two years and until its successor is designated
and has qualified. The board and the depository may agree to extend
a depository contract for one additional [at least once in each]
two-year period.
SECTION 2. 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.