Bill Text: TX SB721 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 721 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to communications with appraisal review board members outside of a proceeding before the board; providing a criminal penalty.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-23 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [SB721 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB721-Introduced.html

	82R3357 ALL-D

	By: Williams	S.B. No. 721



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to communications with appraisal review board members
	outside of a proceeding before the board; providing a criminal
	penalty.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 41.66(f), Tax Code, is amended to read as
	follows:
	(f) A member of the appraisal review board may not
	communicate with another person concerning:
	(1) the evidence, argument, facts, merits, or any
	other matters related to an owner's protest, except during the
	hearing on the protest; [or]
	(2) a property that is the subject of the protest,
	except during a hearing on another protest or other proceeding
	before the board at which the property is compared to other property
	or used in a sample of properties; or
	(3) a factual or hypothetical situation that is
	substantially similar to a situation that is the subject of the
	protest, except during the hearing on the protest.
	SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
	only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
	Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
	the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
	before that date.
	(b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
	Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.