By: Bettencourt	S.B. No. 1215
	(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2015; March 17, 2015, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 27, 2015,
	reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
	following vote:  Yeas 12, Nays 0; April 27, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a study of the feasibility and benefits to this state of
	abolishing the property tax assistance division of the office of
	the comptroller of public accounts and transferring its powers and
	duties to an independent agency.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  (a)  The Sunset Advisory Commission shall
	conduct a study of the feasibility and benefits to this state of
	abolishing the property tax assistance division of the office of
	the comptroller of public accounts and transferring its powers and
	duties to an independent agency.
	(b)  Not later than September 1, 2016, the commission shall
	provide a report on the results of the study to the governor, the
	lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives,
	and the appropriate standing committees of the senate and the house
	of representatives.
	(c)  This section expires September 1, 2017.
	SECTION 2.  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, 2015.
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