By: Murphy H.B. No. 4074
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to hearings on protests.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 41.45, Tax Code, is amended by adding new
Subsection (c-1) and amending Subsection (h) to read as follows:
(c-1) The appraisal office shall provide audio-visual
equipment at each hearing on a protest for the use of the property
owner initiating the protest or the protesting property owner's
representatives. The audio-visual equipment shall be of the same
general type, kind and character as the equipment used by the chief
appraiser at each protest hearing.
(h) Before the hearing on a protest or immediately after the
hearing begins, the chief appraiser and the property owner or the
owner's agent shall each provide the other with a copy of any
written material or material preserved on any portable device
designed to maintain an electronic, magnetic or digital
reproduction of any document or image that the person intends to
offer or submit to the appraisal review board at the hearing.
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect January 1, 2016.