Bill Text: TX HB2179 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the grounds for imposing certain sanctions on certain persons for engaging in certain conduct in connection with the appointment of members of or the functions of appraisal review boards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB2179 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2179-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2179 | ||
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| relating to the grounds for imposing certain sanctions on certain | ||
| persons for engaging in certain conduct in connection with the | ||
| appointment of members of or the functions of appraisal review | ||
| boards. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 6.41(f) and (i), Tax Code, are amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (f) A member of the board may be removed from the board by a | ||
| majority vote of the appraisal district board of directors, or by | ||
| the local administrative district judge or the judge's designee, as | ||
| applicable, that appointed the member. Grounds for removal are: | ||
| (1) a violation of Section 6.412, 6.413, 41.66(f), or | ||
| 41.69; | ||
| (2) good cause relating to the attendance of members | ||
| at called meetings of the board as established by written policy | ||
| adopted by a majority of the appraisal district board of directors; | ||
| or | ||
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| or misconduct. | ||
| (i) This subsection applies only to an appraisal district | ||
| described by Subsection (d-1). A chief appraiser or another | ||
| employee or agent of the appraisal district, a member of the | ||
| appraisal review board for the appraisal district, a member of the | ||
| board of directors of the appraisal district, a property tax | ||
| consultant, or an agent of a property owner commits an offense if | ||
| the person communicates with the local administrative district | ||
| judge regarding the appointment of appraisal review board members. | ||
| This subsection does not apply to: | ||
| (1) a communication between a member of the appraisal | ||
| review board and the local administrative district judge regarding | ||
| the member's reappointment to the board; | ||
| (2) a communication between the taxpayer liaison | ||
| officer for the appraisal district and the local administrative | ||
| district judge in the course of the performance of the officer's | ||
| clerical duties so long as the officer does not offer an opinion or | ||
| comment regarding the appointment of appraisal review board | ||
| members; | ||
| (3) a communication between a chief appraiser or | ||
| another employee or agent of the appraisal district, a member of the | ||
| appraisal review board for the appraisal district, or a member of | ||
| the board of directors of the appraisal district and the local | ||
| administrative district judge regarding information relating to or | ||
| described by Subsection (d-1), (d-5), or (f) of this section or | ||
| Section 411.1296, Government Code; [ |
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| (4) a communication between a property tax consultant | ||
| or a property owner or an agent of the property owner and the | ||
| taxpayer liaison officer for the appraisal district regarding | ||
| information relating to or described by Subsection (f). The | ||
| taxpayer liaison officer for the appraisal district shall report | ||
| the contents of the communication relating to or described by | ||
| Subsection (f) to the local administrative district judge; or | ||
| (5) a communication between a property tax consultant | ||
| or a property owner or an agent of the property owner and the local | ||
| administrative district judge regarding information relating to or | ||
| described by Subsection (f). | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Section 6.41(f), Tax Code, as amended by this | ||
| Act, applies only to a proceeding to remove an appraisal review | ||
| board member that begins on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| A proceeding to remove an appraisal review board member that began | ||
| before the effective date of this Act is governed by that subsection | ||
| as it existed on the date the proceeding to remove the board member | ||
| began, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| (b) The change in law made by this Act to Section 6.41(i), | ||
| Tax Code, applies only to an offense committed under that | ||
| subsection before, on, or after the effective date of this Act, | ||
| except that a final conviction for an offense committed under that | ||
| subsection before the effective date of this Act is unaffected by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2179 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 2, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2179 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
