82R3357 ALL-D
By: Williams S.B. No. 721
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to communications with appraisal review board members
outside of a proceeding before the board; providing a criminal
penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 41.66(f), Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
(f) A member of the appraisal review board may not
communicate with another person concerning:
(1) the evidence, argument, facts, merits, or any
other matters related to an owner's protest, except during the
hearing on the protest; [or]
(2) a property that is the subject of the protest,
except during a hearing on another protest or other proceeding
before the board at which the property is compared to other property
or used in a sample of properties; or
(3) a factual or hypothetical situation that is
substantially similar to a situation that is the subject of the
protest, except during the hearing on the protest.
SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
before that date.
(b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.