Bill Text: TX HB1088 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to appraisal review board members.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1088 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1088-Introduced.html
82R3995 TJB-F | ||
By: Howard of Fort Bend | H.B. No. 1088 |
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relating to appraisal review board members. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 6.41, Tax Code, is amended by amending | ||
Subsections (c), (d), (d-2), (d-3), (e), (f), and (g) and adding | ||
Subsection (i) to read as follows: | ||
(c) To be eligible to serve on the board, an individual | ||
must: | ||
(1) be a citizen of the United States; | ||
(2) be a resident of the district; and | ||
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two years. | ||
(d) Members [ |
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district judge in the county in which the appraisal district is | ||
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manner for the unexpired portion of the term. | ||
(d-2) A local administrative district judge [ |
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under Subsection (d) directly or may, by written order, appoint | ||
from three to five persons to perform the duties of appraisal review | ||
board commissioner. If the local administrative district judge | ||
chooses to appoint appraisal review board commissioners, each | ||
commissioner shall possess the same qualifications as those | ||
required of an appraisal review board member. | ||
(d-3) The local administrative district judge [ |
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to notify the [ |
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when and where they are to appear. | ||
(e) Members of the board hold office for terms of two years | ||
beginning January 1. The appraisal district board of directors by | ||
resolution shall provide for staggered terms, so that the terms of | ||
as close to one-half of the members as possible expire each year. | ||
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judge's designee shall designate those members who serve terms of | ||
one year as needed to comply with this subsection. | ||
(f) A member of the board may be removed from the board [ |
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the local administrative district judge or the judge's designee[ |
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are: | ||
(1) ineligibility, including a violation of Section | ||
6.412 or [ |
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(2) a violation of Section [ |
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or | ||
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members at called meetings or hearings of the board as established | ||
by written policy adopted by a majority of the appraisal district | ||
board of directors. | ||
(g) Subsection (a) does not preclude the boards of directors | ||
of two or more adjoining appraisal districts from providing for the | ||
operation of a consolidated appraisal review board by interlocal | ||
contract. Members of a consolidated appraisal review board are | ||
appointed jointly by the local administrative district judges in | ||
the counties in which the appraisal districts that are parties to | ||
the contract are established. | ||
(i) Service on a board does not constitute employment for | ||
the purposes of Chapter 201, Labor Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 411.1296, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 411.1296. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD | ||
INFORMATION: EMPLOYMENT BY APPRAISAL DISTRICT AND APPOINTMENT TO | ||
APPRAISAL REVIEW BOARD. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), | ||
an appraisal district established by Section 6.01, Tax Code, and a | ||
local administrative district judge acting under Section 6.41, Tax | ||
Code, are [ |
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history record information maintained by the department that | ||
relates to a person who is an applicant for employment by the | ||
appraisal district or appointment to the appraisal review board for | ||
the district, as applicable. | ||
(b) An appraisal district and a local administrative | ||
district judge are [ |
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any information about a person if the appraisal district or local | ||
administrative district judge, as applicable, is entitled to obtain | ||
under another section of this subchapter any criminal history | ||
record information about the person. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 6.41(d-1), Tax Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. (a) As soon as practicable on or after January | ||
1, 2012, the local administrative district judge or the judge's | ||
designee in each county, in the manner provided by Section 6.41, Tax | ||
Code, as amended by this Act, shall appoint the members of the | ||
appraisal review board for the appraisal district established in | ||
the county. In making the initial appointments, the judge or | ||
judge's designee shall designate those members who serve terms of | ||
one year as necessary to comply with Section 6.41(e), Tax Code, as | ||
amended by this Act. | ||
(b) The changes made to Section 6.41, Tax Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, apply only to the appointment of appraisal review board | ||
members to terms beginning on or after January 1, 2012. This Act | ||
does not affect the term of an appraisal review board member serving | ||
on December 31, 2011, if the member was appointed before the | ||
effective date of this Act to a term that began before December 31, | ||
2011, and expires December 31, 2012. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect January 1, 2012. |