Bill Text: TX SB929 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to continuing education requirements for county tax assessor-collectors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-18 - Effective immediately [SB929 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB929-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to continuing education requirements for county tax assessor-collectors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-18 - Effective immediately [SB929 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB929-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hughes | S.B. No. 929 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 16, 2017; March 1, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; | ||
March 29, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 14, Nays 0; March 29, 2017, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 929 | By: Nelson |
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relating to continuing education requirements for county tax | ||
assessor-collectors. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 6.231(b), Tax Code, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) In addition to the requirement described by Subsection | ||
(a), a county assessor-collector shall: | ||
(1) successfully complete continuing education | ||
courses on ethics and on the constitutional and statutory duties of | ||
the county assessor-collector not later than the 90th day after the | ||
date on which the county assessor-collector first takes office; and | ||
(2) if the county assessor-collector assesses or | ||
collects property taxes, successfully complete at least 40 hours of | ||
continuing education courses on the assessment and collection of | ||
property taxes, including a course dedicated to Chapter 26, not | ||
later than the first anniversary of the date on which the county | ||
assessor-collector first takes office. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a county assessor-collector whose first term of office as county | ||
assessor-collector begins on or after the effective date of 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, 2017. | ||
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