Amend CSHB 3646 as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION and
renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 26.01(e), Tax Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) Not later than June 7, the chief appraiser shall prepare
and certify to the comptroller an estimate of the taxable value of
property in each school district participating in the appraisal
district and the total market value of that property. Except as
provided by Subsection (f), not later than [by] June 7, the chief
appraiser shall also prepare and certify to the assessor for each
county, municipality, and school district participating in the
appraisal district an estimate of the taxable value of property in
that taxing unit. The chief appraiser shall assist each county,
municipality, and school district in determining values of property
in that taxing unit for the taxing unit's budgetary purposes.
(2) On page 42, line 21, strike "Section 403.302(j),
Government Code, is" and substitute "Sections 403.302(g) and (j),
Government Code, are".
(3) On page 42, between lines 22 and 23, insert the
following:
(g) The comptroller shall provide to the commissioner of
education [publish] preliminary taxable value estimates
[findings], listing values by district, before July 1 of the year of
the study, and shall certify preliminary findings, listing values
by district, by February 1 of the year following the year of the
study. Preliminary findings shall be delivered to each school
district and shall be certified to the commissioner of education. A
preliminary taxable value estimate provided under this subsection
may not be appealed, but may be revised by the comptroller at any
time before preliminary findings are certified.