79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 18, Chapter 1368 Page: 3 of 11
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S.B. No. 18
1 SECTION 2. Subsections (a) through (e), Section 26.06, Tax
2 Code, are amended to read as follows:
3 (a) A public hearing required by Section 26.05 may not be
4 held before the seventh day after the date the notice of the public
5 hearing [en ] is given. The second hearing
6 may not be held earlier than the third day after the date of the
7 first hearing. Each [The] hearing must be on a weekday that is not a
8 public holiday. Each [he] hearing must be held inside the
9 boundaries of the unit in a publicly owned building or, if a
10 suitable publicly owned building is not available, in a suitable
11 building to which the public normally has access. At the hearings
12 [ke-a -4g] , the governing body must afford adequate opportunity for
13 proponents and opponents of the tax increase to present their
14 views.
15 (b) The notice of each of the [a] public hearings [heae-4-eg]
16 may not be smaller than one-quarter page of a standard-size or a
17 tabloid-size newspaper, and the headline on the notice must be in
18 18-point or larger type. The notice must [-.
19 [-(44] contain a statement in the following form:
20 "NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON TAX INCREASE
21 "Last year, the (name of taxing unit) property tax rate was
22 $(insert tax rate adopted in preceding tax year). That rate raised
23 $(insert total amount of taxes imposed in the preceding tax year), a
24 portion of which was used to fund operations such as (insert sample
25 descriptions of unit's operations).
26 "This year, (name of taxing unit) is proposing a property tax
27 rate of $(insert proposed tax rate). That rate would raise $(insert3
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 18, Chapter 1368, legislative document, June 18, 2005; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth157637/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.