85R2807 SMT-D
 
  By: Bell H.B. No. 139
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of a property owner to request that notice
  of a protest hearing before the appraisal review board be delivered
  by certified mail.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 41.46, Tax Code, is amended by adding
  Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  The appraisal review board shall deliver notice of the
  hearing by certified mail if, in the notice of protest under Section
  41.44, the property owner requests delivery by certified mail.  The
  board may require the property owner to pay the cost of postage
  under this subsection.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.