Amend CSHB 1887 (senate committee printing) on third reading as follows:

(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ___.  Subsection (e-1), Section 41.45, Tax Code, is amended to read as follows:

(e-1)  A property owner or a person [who has not] designated by the property owner as the owner's [an] agent under Section 1.111 to represent the owner at the hearing [and] who fails to appear at the hearing is entitled to a new hearing if the property owner or the owner's agent files, not later than the fourth day after the date the hearing occurred, a written statement with the appraisal review board showing good cause for the failure to appear and requesting a new hearing.