Bill Text: TX HB1496 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the date for ordering or holding an election to ratify the ad valorem tax rate of a school district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-19 - Considered in Calendars [HB1496 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1496-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Bonnen of Galveston | H.B. No. 1496 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1496: | |||
By: Bohac | C.S.H.B. No. 1496 |
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relating to the date for ordering or holding an election to ratify | ||
the ad valorem tax rate of a school district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 26.08(b), Tax Code, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) The governing body shall order that the election be held | ||
in the school district on the first uniform election date | ||
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Code, that allows sufficient time to comply with other requirements | ||
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the election, the ballots shall be prepared to permit voting for or | ||
against the proposition: "Approving the ad valorem tax rate of | ||
$_____ per $100 valuation in (name of school district) for the | ||
current year, a rate that is $_____ higher per $100 valuation than | ||
the school district rollback tax rate, for the purpose of | ||
(description of purpose of increase)." The ballot proposition must | ||
include the adopted tax rate and the difference between that rate | ||
and the rollback tax rate in the appropriate places. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 3.005(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
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subdivision shall be ordered not later than the 62nd day before | ||
election day. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 3.005(d), Election Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies to | ||
the ad valorem tax rate of a school district beginning with the 2017 | ||
tax year, except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section. | ||
(b) If the governing body of a school district adopted an ad | ||
valorem tax rate for the school district for the 2017 tax year | ||
before the effective date of this Act, the change in law made by | ||
this Act applies to the ad valorem tax rate of that school district | ||
beginning with the 2018 tax year, and the law in effect when the tax | ||
rate was adopted applies to the 2017 tax year with respect to that | ||
school district. | ||
SECTION 5. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |