Bill Text: TX SB1739 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the procedure by which the assessor for a taxing unit is required to provide certain ad valorem tax-related information to a property owner or the owner's agent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-08 - Left pending in committee [SB1739 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB1739-Introduced.html

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84R7503 LEH-D
By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1739

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the procedure by which the assessor for a taxing unit is
required to provide certain ad valorem tax-related information to a
property owner or the owner's agent.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.01, Tax Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (c-3) to read as follows:
(c-3) The assessor for a taxing unit that maintains an
Internet website may post on the website of the taxing unit the
information required by Subsections (c)(11) and (12) and (c-1) to
be included in a tax bill or separate statement instead of including
the information in the tax bill or statement. If the information is
not included in the tax bill or separate statement, the assessor
must include in the tax bill or statement the address of the taxing
unit's Internet website where the information may be viewed. On
written request of a property owner or an authorized agent of a
property owner, an assessor for a taxing unit who posts information
described by this subsection on the taxing unit's Internet website
must deliver the information as it relates to the owner's property
by mail to the owner or agent.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a tax bill mailed on or after the effective date of this Act. A
tax bill mailed before the effective date of this Act is governed by
the law in effect immediately before that date, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.