85R3205 SMT-F
By: King of Uvalde H.B. No. 1582
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability of the requirement that appraisal
review board members be appointed by the local administrative
district judge.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 6.41(d-1), Tax Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(d-1) In a county with a population of 350,000 [120,000] or
more the members of the board are appointed by the local
administrative district judge under Subchapter D, Chapter 74,
Government Code, in the county in which the appraisal district is
established. All applications submitted to the appraisal district
or to the appraisal review board from persons seeking appointment
as a member of the appraisal review board shall be delivered to the
local administrative district judge. The appraisal district may
provide the local administrative district judge with information
regarding whether an applicant for appointment to or a member of the
board owes any delinquent ad valorem taxes to a taxing unit
participating in the appraisal district.
SECTION 2. (a) The changes made to Section 6.41, Tax Code,
by this Act apply only to the appointment of appraisal review board
members to terms beginning on or after January 1, 2018. This Act
does not affect the term of an appraisal review board member serving
on December 31, 2017, if the member was appointed before January 1,
2018, to a term that began before December 31, 2017, and expires
December 31, 2018.
(b) The changes in law made by this Act to Sections 6.41(i)
and (j), Tax Code, apply only to an offense committed on or after
the effective date of this Act. An offense committed before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose. For purposes of this subsection, an
offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if any
element of the offense occurred before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.