Amend CSHB 3071 as follows:                                                  
	On page __, after line __, insert the following appropriately 
numbered sections:
	Section 1. Section 6.02(a), Tax Code, is amended to read as 
follows:         
	The [(a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, the] 
appraisal district's boundaries are the same as the county's 
boundaries. This section does not preclude the boards of directors 
of two or more adjoining appraisal districts from providing for the 
operation of a consolidated appraisal district by interlocal 
contract.
	SECTION 2. Section 41.097(a), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
	(a)  The total amount required under Section 41.093 for a 
district to purchase attendance credits under this subchapter for 
any school year is reduced by an amount equal to the product of the 
district's total costs under Section 6.06, Tax Code, for the 
[central] appraisal district or districts in which it participates 
multiplied by a percentage that is computed by dividing the total 
amount required under Section 41.093 by the total amounts of taxes 
imposed in the district for that year less any amount paid into a 
tax increment fund under Chapter 311, Tax Code.
	SECTION 3. Section 41.210(b), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
	(b)  As soon as practicable after the detachment and 
annexation of property, the chief appraiser of the appraisal 
district in which the property is located [for the school district 
from which the property is detached] shall send a written notice of 
the detachment and annexation to the owner of any property taxable 
in a different school district as a result of the detachment and 
annexation. The notice must include the name of the school district 
by which the property is taxable after the detachment and 
annexation.
	SECTION 4. The following statutes are repealed:                                
		(1)  Section 13.007, Education Code;                                          
		(2)  Sections 6.02(b)-(g), Tax Code;                                          
		(3)  Section 6.025, Tax Code; and                                             
		(4)  Section 6.03(m), Tax Code.                                               
	SECTION 5. (a)  The changes in law made by this Act relating 
to the appraisal of property for ad valorem tax purposes apply only 
to the appraisal of property for a tax year that begins on or after 
January 1, 2006.
	(b)  The term of each appraisal district director in an 
appraisal district described by Section 6.025, Tax Code, as that 
law existed immediately before September 1, 2005, serving a 
staggered term that but for this subsection would expire after 
January 1, 2006, expires on January 1, 2006. The appraisal district 
board of directors shall fill the vacant directorships as soon as 
practicable after January 1, 2006, as provided by Section 6.03(1), 
Tax Code.
	(c)  Notwithstanding Section 6.03, Tax Code, a taxing unit is 
entitled to vote in 2005 for appraisal district directors for terms 
beginning on January 1, 2006, in each appraisal district in which 
the taxing unit will participate in 2006 under the law as amended by 
this Act. The voting entitlement of each taxing unit entitled to 
vote for directors in 2005 is determined for each appraisal 
district by dividing the total dollar amount of property taxes 
imposed by the taxing unit for the 2004 tax year in the county for 
which the appraisal district is established by the sum of the total 
dollar amount of property taxes imposed in that county for that year 
by each taxing unit that is entitled to vote for directors of that 
appraisal district under this subsection in 2005, by multiplying 
the quotient by 1,000, and by rounding the product to the nearest 
whole number. That number is multiplied by the number of 
directorships to be filled. A taxing unit located in two or more 
counties is entitled to vote in the appraisal district established 
for each county in which it is located, but only the taxes imposed 
in 2004 in the county for which a district is established are used 
to calculate the 2005 voting entitlement in that district.
	(d)  Notwithstanding Section 6.06, Tax Code, not later than 
September 15, 2005, the chief appraiser of each appraisal district 
shall revise the proposed 2006 budget for the district, if 
necessary, to account for the changes in law made by this Act.
	(e)  Notwithstanding Section 6.06, Tax Code, for the 2006 tax 
year, each taxing unit participating in an appraisal district in 
2006 is allocated a portion of the amount of the 2006 budget for the 
district equal to the proportion that the total dollar amount of 
property taxes imposed in the county for which the district is 
established by the unit for the 2005 tax year bears to the sum of the 
total dollar amount of property taxes imposed in the county by each 
participating unit for that year. If a taxing unit participates in 
two or more appraisal districts in 2006, only the 2005 taxes imposed 
in the county for which a district is established are used to 
calculate the unit's cost allocations for 2006 in that district.
	SECTION 6. (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this 
section, this Act takes effect January 1, 2006.
	(b)  Section___ of this Act [beginning on page 2, line 11 of 
this amendment] takes effect September 1, 2005.