Bill Text: TX SB1842 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that an appraisal district maintain and post certain information on an Internet website; making conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Local Government [SB1842 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1842-Introduced.html

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88R2431 DRS-D
By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 1842

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that an appraisal district maintain and
post certain information on an Internet website; making conforming
changes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1.086(f), Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
(f) The chief appraiser of an appraisal district [that
maintains an Internet website] shall provide a form on the
appraisal district's Internet website that a property owner may use
to electronically make a request under this section.
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 6, Tax Code, is amended by
adding Section 6.038 to read as follows:
Sec. 6.038. BOARD MEMBER CONTACT INFORMATION POSTED ON
APPRAISAL DISTRICT WEBSITE. (a) Each appraisal district shall
post on the district's Internet website the following for each
member of the district's board of directors:
(1) the member's name; and
(2) the member's official mailing address, telephone
number, and e-mail address.
(b) The e-mail address of a member of the board of directors
posted under Subsection (a) must:
(1) include the member's name in the address; and
(2) be for an e-mail account monitored by the member.
SECTION 3. Section 6.16(c), Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
(c) A list must:
(1) be organized by county;
(2) be available on the appraisal district's Internet
website[, if the appraisal district maintains a website]; and
(3) provide the name, contact information, and job
title of each individual who will provide free assistance.
SECTION 4. Subchapter A, Chapter 6, Tax Code, is amended by
adding Section 6.17 to read as follows:
Sec. 6.17. INTERNET WEBSITE REQUIRED. Each appraisal
district shall maintain an Internet website.
SECTION 5. Section 11.1825(r), Tax Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(r) Not later than January 31 of each year, the appraisal
district shall give public notice in the manner determined by the
district, including posting on the district's website [if
applicable], of the capitalization rate to be used in that year to
appraise property receiving an exemption under this section.
SECTION 6. Section 25.19(n), Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
(n) As soon as practicable after delivering a notice
required by this section to a property owner, the chief appraiser
shall post the notice on the appraisal district's Internet
website[, if the appraisal district maintains a website,] as part
of the appraisal record pertaining to the property.
SECTION 7. Section 41.01(e), Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
(e) The appraisal review board shall post a copy of the
hearing procedures adopted by the board:
(1) in a prominent place in each room in which the
board conducts hearings under this subchapter and Subchapter C; and
(2) [if the appraisal district for which the board is
established maintains an Internet website,] on the Internet website
of the appraisal district for which the board is established
[district's website].
SECTION 8. Section 41.415, Tax Code, as added by Chapter
1370 (S.B. 873), Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session,
2009, is repealed.
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.