By: Darby H.B. No. 5578
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to notice of a public hearing at which the board of
directors of an appraisal district will consider the appraisal
district budget.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 6.062, Tax Code, is amended by adding
subsection (a) and adding subsections (a-1), (d), and (e) to read as
follows:
Sec. 6.062. PUBLICATION OF BUDGET. (a) Not later than the
10th day before the date of the public hearing at which the board of
directors considers the appraisal district budget, the chief
appraiser shall give notice of the public hearing by publishing the
notice in a newspaper having general circulation in the county for
which the appraisal district is established; and either:
(1) on the home page of the:
(A) county appraisal district’s Internet
website, if the county appraisal district maintains an Internet
website; or
(B) county’s Internet website, if the county
maintains an Internet website and the county appraisal district
does not maintain an Internet website; or
(2) on the official social media page for the:
(A) county appraisal district, if the county
appraisal district maintains an official social media page; or
(B) county, if the county maintains an official
social media page and the county appraisal district does not
maintain an official social media page.
(a-1) The notice published under Subdivision(a)(3) may not
be smaller than one-quarter page of a standard-size or tabloid-size
newspaper and may not be published in the part of the paper in which
legal notices and classified advertisements appear.
(d) The chief appraiser shall provide notice of any change
of the location of a public hearing for which notice is provided
under this section in the same manner as the notice required by
Subsection (a). The notice must be provided not later than the 5th
day before the date of the hearing.
(e) This subsection applies only to an appraisal district
established in a county with a population of less than 20,000.
Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (d), a chief appraiser may
publish a notice required by Subsection (a) or (d) solely in an
online newspaper having general circulation in the county with
preference given to an online newspaper primarily owned or operated
by a print newspaper.
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, 2025.