Bill Text: TX HB2314 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to annual training for certain members of the board of directors of an appraisal district.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-14 - Referred to s/c on Fiscal Matters by Chair [HB2314 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2314-Introduced.html
| 83R5695 TJB-F | ||
| By: Otto | H.B. No. 2314 | |
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| relating to annual training for certain members of the board of | ||
| directors of an appraisal district. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 5, Tax Code, is amended by adding Section | ||
| 5.043 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 5.043. TRAINING OF APPRAISAL DISTRICT DIRECTORS. (a) | ||
| In this section, "open government training" means the courses of | ||
| training required of certain public officials by Sections | ||
| 551.005(b) and 552.012(d), Government Code. | ||
| (b) The comptroller, with the assistance of one or more | ||
| commissions as defined by Section 391.002, Local Government Code, | ||
| shall develop an online training course for members of the board of | ||
| directors of an appraisal district. The training must provide | ||
| information relevant to the operation of an appraisal district and | ||
| its board of directors, including an overview of the property tax | ||
| system, a discussion of the duties and responsibilities of a board | ||
| of directors, and a description of the resources available to a | ||
| board. The comptroller shall make the training available on the | ||
| comptroller's Internet website. | ||
| (c) Each member of the board of directors of an appraisal | ||
| district must annually complete both the open government training | ||
| and the training described by Subsection (b). The appraisal | ||
| district shall conduct the training required by this section at the | ||
| first public meeting of the board during each calendar year. A | ||
| member of the board who does not complete the training at that | ||
| meeting must complete the training during regular business hours at | ||
| the main office of the appraisal district not later than the 30th | ||
| day after the date of that meeting. | ||
| (d) A member of the board of directors who does not complete | ||
| the training in the time and manner prescribed by Subsection (c) is | ||
| ineligible to continue to serve on the board. A new board member | ||
| shall be elected in the manner prescribed by Section 6.03(l) to fill | ||
| the vacancy. A member elected to fill a vacancy must complete the | ||
| training required by Subsection (c) not later than the 30th day | ||
| after the date the member is elected or the member becomes | ||
| ineligible to continue to serve on the board and shall be replaced | ||
| as provided by this subsection. | ||
| (e) This section does not apply to a nonvoting member of the | ||
| board of directors of an appraisal district. | ||
| SECTION 2. The comptroller of public accounts shall make | ||
| available the training course required by Section 5.043, Tax Code, | ||
| as added by this Act, not later than January 1, 2014. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a member of the board of directors of an appraisal district | ||
| appointed or elected for a term that begins on or after January 1, | ||
| 2014. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
