Bill Text: TX HB1953 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
| 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 first date that the taxing unit has received each | ||
| applicable certified appraisal roll 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 first date that the | ||
| taxing unit has received each applicable certified appraisal roll | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1953 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1953 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 20, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
