Amend SB 12 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 48.2551(d), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(d) The agency shall:
(1) calculate and make available school districts' maximum compressed rates, as determined under this section; and
(2) post the information described by Section 48.2556 on the agency's Internet website as required by that section.
SECTION ____. Subchapter F, Chapter 48, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 48.2556 to read as follows:
Sec. 48.2556. POSTING ON AGENCY WEBSITE OF INFORMATION RELATED TO REDUCTION OF LIMITATION OF TAX ON HOMESTEADS OF ELDERLY OR DISABLED. (a) The agency shall post the following information on the agency's Internet website for purposes of allowing the chief appraiser of each appraisal district and the assessor for each school district to make the calculations required by Sections 11.26(a-5), (a-6), (a-7), (a-8), and (a-9), Tax Code:
(1) each school district's maximum compressed rate, as determined under Section 48.2551, for each tax year beginning with the 2019 tax year; and
(2) each school district's tier one maintenance and operations tax rate, as provided by Section 45.0032(a), for the 2018 tax year.
(b) The agency shall post each school district's maximum compressed rate for the current tax year, as determined under Section 48.2551, promptly after calculating the rate. If, for the 2022 or a subsequent tax year, the agency calculates a preliminary rate before calculating a final rate, the agency shall post the preliminary rate, and the chief appraiser of each appraisal district and the assessor for each school district shall use the preliminary rate to make the calculations described by Subsection (a).
(c) The agency shall notify the chief appraiser of each appraisal district and the assessor for each school district when the agency has complied with Subsection (b). The notice must include the location on the agency's Internet website at which the information required by this section to be posted may be found.