Bill Text: TX HB1953 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the deadline for counties and municipalities to provide notice of a proposed property tax rate.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective on 1/1/16 [HB1953 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1953-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the deadline for counties and municipalities to provide notice of a proposed property tax rate.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective on 1/1/16 [HB1953 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1953-Introduced.html
84R11003 TJB-F | ||
By: Bonnen of Brazoria | H.B. No. 1953 |
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relating to the deadline for counties and municipalities to provide | ||
notice of a proposed property tax rate. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 140.010(f), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(f) A county or municipality shall: | ||
(1) provide the notice required by Subsection (d) or | ||
(e), as applicable, not later than the later of September 1 or the | ||
30th day after the date the certified appraisal roll is received by | ||
the taxing unit by: | ||
(A) publishing the notice in a newspaper having | ||
general circulation in: | ||
(i) the county, in the case of notice | ||
published by a county; or | ||
(ii) the county in which the municipality | ||
is located or primarily located, in the case of notice published by | ||
a municipality; or | ||
(B) mailing the notice to each property owner in: | ||
(i) the county, in the case of notice | ||
provided by a county; or | ||
(ii) the municipality, in the case of | ||
notice provided by a municipality; and | ||
(2) post the notice on the Internet website of the | ||
county or municipality, if applicable, beginning not later than the | ||
later of September 1 or the 30th day after the date the certified | ||
appraisal roll is received by the taxing unit and continuing until | ||
the county or municipality adopts a tax rate. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an ad valorem tax year | ||
that begins on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2016. |