2025 · Regular session · House bill
HB3307
Beginning September 1, 2026, HB3307 expands which continuing-education courses may count when someone renews an agreement with the comptroller to arbitrate property-tax appraisal disputes.
Official caption: Relating to the continuing education required in order for a person to renew the person's agreement with the comptroller of public accounts to serve as an arbitrator in an appeal through binding arbitration of an appraisal review board order determining a protest.
Official report lists House author(s): Noble. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
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- Beginning September 1, 2026, HB3307 expands which continuing-education courses may count when someone renews an agreement with the comptroller to arbitrate property-tax appraisal disputes.
- The new option is about qualifying education, not a reduction in the required hours or an exemption from the subject matter.
- Renewal applicants still must apply as the comptroller directs and satisfy the referenced professional-qualification and arbitration-fee requirements.
What does it do?
Beginning September 1, 2026, HB3307 expands which continuing-education courses may count when someone renews an agreement with the comptroller to arbitrate property-tax appraisal disputes. The requirement remains at least eight hours during the preceding two years, on arbitration and alternative dispute resolution procedures. Such education may now qualify either because it comes from a university, college, real-estate trade association or legal association, or because it is approved for continuing legal education. Final law.
The new option is about qualifying education, not a reduction in the required hours or an exemption from the subject matter. An unrelated legal-education course does not satisfy the statutory arbitration/dispute-resolution requirement merely because it carries education credit.
Renewal applicants still must apply as the comptroller directs and satisfy the referenced professional-qualification and arbitration-fee requirements. The law also retains the obligation to complete substantially revised comptroller property-tax training within 120 days after that training becomes available when the statutory conditions apply. It does not replace initial qualification requirements with an eight-hour course or change property owners’ appeal rights. Arbitrator qualifications and renewal law.
What changed along the way?
The introduced version described education included in a course approved by the State Bar or Supreme Court and proposed a September 1, 2025 start. The House committee substitute used the broader wording “approved for continuing legal education” and moved the effective date to September 1, 2026. The House-passed bill retained those changes. All text versions.
The Senate substitute separated the two qualifying routes into lettered alternatives: education from the named providers, or education approved for continuing legal education. It retained the eight-hour/two-year standard and the 2026 effective date. The adopted substitute in the Senate amendment packet matches the final operative text; the House concurred. Although the separate floor-amendment index says there are no amendments, that does not mean the bill passed unchanged. Amendment index; adopted Senate substitute; history.
The governor signed the bill May 29, 2025; its explicit September 1, 2026 effective date controls, not the signature date.
For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.
Official bill versions
Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.
Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
Arbitrators may have more flexibility to choose qualifying courses, including using relevant continuing legal education toward this renewal requirement. Course providers offering approved education may gain participants. A larger or more easily maintained pool of arbitrators could help property owners and appraisal districts, but the law does not guarantee faster hearings, lower fees or a particular tax result.
The final available fiscal note anticipated no state fiscal impact and no significant local-government fiscal impact. It did not estimate individuals’ tuition expenses, time savings or changes in arbitration demand. The bill changes education eligibility rather than creating a new training appropriation. Fiscal note.
Review boundary: This is an explanation of the enacted renewal standard, not approval of a particular course or advice about an individual arbitration appeal.
Official sources
- Bill history and latest recorded action
- Bill versions, analyses and fiscal notes
- Action history and votes
- Amendment index
Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.
