88R14313 RDS-D
By: Price H.B. No. 4172
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of the governing body of a hospital
district to vote for candidates for director of the appraisal
district in which the hospital district participates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 6.03(c) and (e), Tax Code, are amended
to read as follows:
(c) Members of the board of directors other than a county
assessor-collector serving as a nonvoting director are appointed by
vote of the governing bodies of the incorporated cities and towns,
the school districts, the junior college districts, the hospital
districts, and, if entitled to vote, the conservation and
reclamation districts that participate in the district and of the
county. A governing body may cast all its votes for one candidate
or distribute them among candidates for any number of
directorships. Conservation and reclamation districts are not
entitled to vote unless at least one conservation and reclamation
district in the district delivers to the chief appraiser a written
request to nominate and vote on the board of directors by June 1 of
each odd-numbered year. On receipt of a request, the chief
appraiser shall certify a list by June 15 of all eligible
conservation and reclamation districts that are imposing taxes and
that participate in the district.
(e) The chief appraiser shall calculate the number of votes
to which each taxing unit other than a conservation and reclamation
district is entitled and shall deliver written notice to each of
those taxing units of its voting entitlement before October 1 of
each odd-numbered year. The chief appraiser shall deliver the
notice:
(1) to the county judge and each commissioner of the
county served by the appraisal district;
(2) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
each city or town participating in the appraisal district, to the
city manager of each city or town having a city manager, and to the
city secretary or clerk, if there is one, of each city or town that
does not have a city manager;
(3) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
each school district participating in the district and to the
superintendent of those school districts; [and]
(4) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
each junior college district participating in the district and to
the president, chancellor, or other chief executive officer of
those junior college districts; and
(5) to the presiding officer of the governing body and
the hospital administrator of each hospital district participating
in the district.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
the selection of appraisal district directors for terms that begin
on or after January 1, 2024.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2023.