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.