By: Patrick S.B. No. 1546
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the right to a new hearing before an appraisal review
board following a failure to attend a hearing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (e-1), Section 41.45, Tax Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(e-1) A property owner or a person [who has not] designated
by the property owner as the owner's [an] agent under Section 1.111
to represent the owner at the hearing [and] who fails to appear at
the hearing is entitled to a new hearing if the property owner or
the owner's agent files, not later than the fourth day after the
date the hearing occurred, a written statement with the appraisal
review board showing good cause for the failure to appear and
requesting a new hearing.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a protest under Chapter 41, Tax Code, that is filed on or after
the effective date of this Act. A protest under Chapter 41, Tax
Code, that was filed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the protest was filed, and
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.