By: Murphy H.B. No. 4074
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  Relating to hearings on protests.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 41.45, Tax Code, is amended by adding new
  Subsection (c-1) and amending Subsection (h) to read as follows:
         (c-1)  The appraisal office shall provide audio-visual
  equipment at each hearing on a protest for the use of the property
  owner initiating the protest or the protesting property owner's
  representatives. The audio-visual equipment shall be of the same
  general type, kind and character as the equipment used by the chief
  appraiser at each protest hearing.
         (h)  Before the hearing on a protest or immediately after the
  hearing begins, the chief appraiser and the property owner or the
  owner's agent shall each provide the other with a copy of any
  written material or material preserved on any portable device
  designed to maintain an electronic, magnetic or digital
 
  reproduction of any document or image that the person intends to
  offer or submit to the appraisal review board at the hearing.
         SECTION 2.  This Act shall take effect January 1, 2016.