By: Springer S.B. No. 348
(In the Senate - Filed January 4, 2023; February 15, 2023,
read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
March 29, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 29, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the prohibition on posting on the Internet information
held by an appraisal district regarding certain residential
property.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 25.027(b), Tax Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(b) Subsection (a)(1) does not apply to:
(1) an aerial photograph that depicts [five or] more
than one separately owned building;
(2) a street level photograph of only the exterior of a
building; or
(3) a field record or overhead sketch of the property
that depicts only:
(A) the outline of one or more buildings on the
property;
(B) the general landscape features of the
property, including ponds, pools, and walls; and
(C) the dimensions of or distances between the
buildings and features depicted [buildings].
SECTION 2. 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.
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