By: Hancock S.B. No. 1394
 
  (Murphy)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the presentation of evidence in appraisal review board
  hearings on protests.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 41.45, Tax Code, is amended by amending
  Subsection (h) and adding Subsection (o) to read as follows:
         (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 a document or image that the person intends to offer
  or submit to the appraisal review board at the hearing.
         (o)  The appraisal office shall provide audiovisual
  equipment at each hearing on a protest for use during the hearing by
  the property owner or the property owner's agent. The audiovisual
  equipment must be of the same general type, kind, and character as
  the equipment used by the chief appraiser at a protest hearing. 
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2016.