Amend CSHB 3 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 

following ARTICLE, appropriately numbered, and renumbering the 

subsequent Articles of the bill appropriately:

				ARTICLE___. PROPERTY TAX PROCEDURES                                         

	SECTION __.01. Section 41.66, Tax Code, is amended by 

amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (d-1) to read as 

follows:

	(d) Except as provided by Subsection (d-1), hearings 

[Hearings] conducted as provided by this chapter are open to the 

public. The appraisal review board by rule may permit a person who 

is not a party to a hearing but who is entitled to be present at the 

hearing to make an audiovisual recording of the hearing on 

agreement of the parties to the hearing.



	(d-1) A hearing in which information made confidential under 

Section 22.27 is disclosed shall be closed to any person who is not 

authorized by that section to have access to the information.

	SECTION__.02. The change in law to Section 41.66, Tax Code, 

as amended by this article, applies only to a hearing under Chapter 

41, Tax Code, that is conducted by an appraisal review board on or 

after the effective date of this Act.