Texas 2015 84th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1739 Introduced / Bill

Filed 03/13/2015

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                    84R7503 LEH-D
 By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1739


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the procedure by which the assessor for a taxing unit is
 required to provide certain ad valorem tax-related information to a
 property owner or the owner's agent.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 31.01, Tax Code, is amended by adding
 Subsection (c-3) to read as follows:
 (c-3)  The assessor for a taxing unit that maintains an
 Internet website may post on the website of the taxing unit the
 information required by Subsections (c)(11) and (12) and (c-1) to
 be included in a tax bill or separate statement instead of including
 the information in the tax bill or statement. If the information is
 not included in the tax bill or separate statement, the assessor
 must include in the tax bill or statement the address of the taxing
 unit's Internet website where the information may be viewed.  On
 written request of a property owner or an authorized agent of a
 property owner, an assessor for a taxing unit who posts information
 described by this subsection on the taxing unit's Internet website
 must deliver the information as it relates to the owner's property
 by mail to the owner or agent.
 SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
 to a tax bill mailed on or after the effective date of this Act. A
 tax bill mailed before the effective date of this Act is governed by
 the law in effect immediately before that date, and that law is
 continued in effect for that purpose.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.