By: Hinojosa  S.B. No. 1405
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2011; March 22, 2011, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
  Relations; May 6, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 6, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the right of a person exempt from registration as a
  property tax consultant who files a protest with the appraisal
  review board on behalf of a property owner to receive notices from
  the board regarding the property subject to the protest.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (j), Section 1.111, Tax Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (j)  An individual exempt from registration as a property tax
  consultant under Section 1152.002, Occupations Code, who files a
  protest with the appraisal review board on behalf of the property
  owner is entitled to receive all notices from the appraisal
  district and appraisal review board regarding the property subject
  to the protest until the authority is revoked by the property owner
  as provided by this section.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
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