By: Garcia, Ellis S.B. No. 1896
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the confidentiality of information in ad valorem tax
  appraisal records that identifies the home address of certain
  judges.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subdivision (2), Subsection (a-1), Section
  25.025, Tax Code, is amended to read as follows:
               (2)  "State judge" means:
                     (A)  a judge, former judge, or retired judge of an
  appellate court, a district court, a statutory probate court, a
  constitutional county court, or a county court at law of this state;
                     (B)  an associate judge appointed under Chapter
  201, Family Code, or Chapter 54A, Government Code, or a retired
  associate judge or former associate judge appointed under either
  law [that chapter]; [or]
                     (C)  a justice of the peace;
                     (D)  a master, magistrate, referee, hearing
  officer, or associate judge appointed under Chapter 54, Government
  Code; or
                     (E)  a municipal court judge.
         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, 2013.