Amend HB 3496 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 
following SECTION to the bill, appropriately numbered, and 
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  (a)  Section 41.411(c), Tax Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(c)  A property owner who protests as provided by this 
section must comply with the payment requirements of Section 42.08 
or the property owner [he] forfeits the property owner's [his] 
right to a final determination of the [his] protest.  The 
delinquency date for purposes of Section 42.08(b) for the taxes on 
the property subject to a protest under this section is postponed to 
the 125th day after the date that one or more taxing units first 
delivered written notice of the taxes due on the property, as 
determined by the appraisal review board at a hearing under Section 
41.44(c-3).
	(b)  Section 41.44, Tax Code, is amended by adding Subsection 
(c-3) to read as follows:
	(c-3)  Notwithstanding Subsection (c), a property owner who 
files a protest under Section 41.411 on or after the date the taxes 
on the property to which the notice applies become delinquent, but 
not later than the 125th day after the property owner, in the 
protest filed, claims to have first received written notice of the 
taxes in question, is entitled to a hearing solely on the issue of 
whether one or more taxing units timely delivered a tax bill.  If at 
the hearing the appraisal review board determines that all of the 
taxing units failed to timely deliver a tax bill, the board shall 
determine the date on which at least one taxing unit first delivered 
written notice of the taxes in question, and for the purposes of 
this section the delinquency date is postponed to the 125th day 
after that date.
	(c)  The change in law made by this section applies only to an 
ad valorem tax protest filed on or after the effective date of this 
Act.  An ad valorem tax protest filed before the effective date of 
this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the protest was 
filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.