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1	1	82R17782 JE-F
2	2	By: Eiland H.B. No. 3457
3	3	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3457:
4	4	By: Hilderbran C.S.H.B. No. 3457
5	5
6	6
7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the selection of certain members of the board of
10	10	directors of an appraisal district.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Sections 6.03(c) and (e), Tax Code, are amended
13	13	to read as follows:
14	14	(c) Members of the board of directors other than a county
15	15	assessor-collector serving as a nonvoting director are appointed by
16	16	vote of the governing bodies of the incorporated cities and towns,
17	17	the school districts, the junior college districts, and, if
18	18	entitled to vote, the conservation and reclamation districts that
19	19	participate in the district and of the county. A governing body may
20	20	cast all its votes for one candidate or distribute them among
21	21	candidates for any number of directorships. Conservation and
22	22	reclamation districts are not entitled to vote unless at least one
23	23	conservation and reclamation district in the district delivers to
24	24	the chief appraiser a written request to nominate and vote on the
25	25	board of directors by June 1 of each odd-numbered year. On receipt
26	26	of a request, the chief appraiser shall certify a list by June 15 of
27	27	all eligible conservation and reclamation districts that are
28	28	imposing taxes and that participate in the district.
29	29	(e) The chief appraiser shall calculate the number of votes
30	30	to which each taxing unit other than a conservation and reclamation
31	31	district is entitled and shall deliver written notice to each of
32	32	those units of its voting entitlement before October 1 of each
33	33	odd-numbered year. The chief appraiser shall deliver the notice:
34	34	(1) to the county judge and each commissioner of the
35	35	county served by the appraisal district;
36	36	(2) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
37	37	each city or town participating in the appraisal district, to the
38	38	city manager of each city or town having a city manager, and to the
39	39	city secretary or clerk, if there is one, of each city or town that
40	40	does not have a city manager; [and]
41	41	(3) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
42	42	each school district participating in the district and to the
43	43	superintendent of those school districts; and
44	44	(4) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
45	45	each junior college district participating in the district and to
46	46	the president, chancellor, or other chief executive officer of
47	47	those junior college districts.
48	48	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
49	49	to the selection of appraisal district directors for terms
50	50	beginning on or after January 1, 2012. The change in law made by
51	51	this Act does not affect the selection of appraisal district
52	52	directors for terms beginning before that date.
53	53	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
54	54	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
55	55	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
56	56	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
57	57	Act takes effect September 1, 2011.