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1	1	88R14313 RDS-D
2	2	By: Price H.B. No. 4172
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the authority of the governing body of a hospital
8	8	district to vote for candidates for director of the appraisal
9	9	district in which the hospital district participates.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Sections 6.03(c) and (e), Tax Code, are amended
12	12	to read as follows:
13	13	(c) Members of the board of directors other than a county
14	14	assessor-collector serving as a nonvoting director are appointed by
15	15	vote of the governing bodies of the incorporated cities and towns,
16	16	the school districts, the junior college districts, the hospital
17	17	districts, and, if entitled to vote, the conservation and
18	18	reclamation districts that participate in the district and of the
19	19	county. A governing body may cast all its votes for one candidate
20	20	or distribute them among candidates for any number of
21	21	directorships. Conservation and reclamation districts are not
22	22	entitled to vote unless at least one conservation and reclamation
23	23	district in the district delivers to the chief appraiser a written
24	24	request to nominate and vote on the board of directors by June 1 of
25	25	each odd-numbered year. On receipt of a request, the chief
26	26	appraiser shall certify a list by June 15 of all eligible
27	27	conservation and reclamation districts that are imposing taxes and
28	28	that participate in the district.
29	29	(e) The chief appraiser shall calculate the number of votes
30	30	to which each taxing unit other than a conservation and reclamation
31	31	district is entitled and shall deliver written notice to each of
32	32	those taxing units of its voting entitlement before October 1 of
33	33	each odd-numbered year. The chief appraiser shall deliver the
34	34	notice:
35	35	(1) to the county judge and each commissioner of the
36	36	county served by the appraisal district;
37	37	(2) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
38	38	each city or town participating in the appraisal district, to the
39	39	city manager of each city or town having a city manager, and to the
40	40	city secretary or clerk, if there is one, of each city or town that
41	41	does not have a city manager;
42	42	(3) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
43	43	each school district participating in the district and to the
44	44	superintendent of those school districts; [and]
45	45	(4) to the presiding officer of the governing body of
46	46	each junior college district participating in the district and to
47	47	the president, chancellor, or other chief executive officer of
48	48	those junior college districts; and
49	49	(5) to the presiding officer of the governing body and
50	50	the hospital administrator of each hospital district participating
51	51	in the district.
52	52	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
53	53	the selection of appraisal district directors for terms that begin
54	54	on or after January 1, 2024.
55	55	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
56	56	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
57	57	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
58	58	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
59	59	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.