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| 1 | 1 | 85S11866 LHC-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Sanford H.B. No. 339 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to the authority of an appraisal review board to direct | |
| 8 | 8 | changes in the appraisal roll for a prior year. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Section 25.25(c), Tax Code, is amended to read as | |
| 11 | 11 | follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | (c) The appraisal review board, on motion of the chief | |
| 13 | 13 | appraiser or of a property owner, may direct by written order | |
| 14 | 14 | changes in the appraisal roll for any of the five preceding years to | |
| 15 | 15 | correct: | |
| 16 | 16 | (1) clerical errors that affect a property owner's | |
| 17 | 17 | liability for a tax imposed in that tax year; | |
| 18 | 18 | (2) multiple appraisals of a property in that tax | |
| 19 | 19 | year; | |
| 20 | 20 | (3) the inclusion of property that does not exist in | |
| 21 | 21 | the form or at the location described in the appraisal roll; [or] | |
| 22 | 22 | (4) an error in which property is shown as owned by a | |
| 23 | 23 | person who did not own the property on January 1 of that tax year; or | |
| 24 | 24 | (5) an error in the square footage of a property | |
| 25 | 25 | described in the appraisal roll. | |
| 26 | 26 | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | |
| 27 | 27 | to a motion to correct an appraisal roll filed on or after the | |
| 28 | 28 | effective date of this Act. A motion to correct an appraisal roll | |
| 29 | 29 | filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law | |
| 30 | 30 | in effect on the date the motion was filed, and the former law is | |
| 31 | 31 | continued in effect for that purpose. | |
| 32 | 32 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. |