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|  | AN ACT | 
|  | relating to assessment of certain charges by certain commercial | 
|  | landlords that are governmental entities. | 
|  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
|  | SECTION 1.  Section 93.012, Property Code, is amended by | 
|  | adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | 
|  | (c)  This section does not affect the contractual right of a | 
|  | landlord that is a governmental entity created under Subchapter D, | 
|  | Chapter 22, Transportation Code, whose constituent municipalities | 
|  | are populous home-rule municipalities to assess charges under a | 
|  | lease to fully compensate the governmental entity for the | 
|  | governmental entity's operating costs. | 
|  | 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, 2009. | 
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|  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
|  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
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|  | I certify that H.B. No. 1382 was passed by the House on April | 
|  | 9, 2009, by the following vote:  Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not | 
|  | voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | 
|  | No. 1382 on May 7, 2009, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 | 
|  | present, not voting. | 
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|  | ______________________________ | 
|  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
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|  | I certify that H.B. No. 1382 was passed by the Senate, with | 
|  | amendments, on May 5, 2009, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
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|  | ______________________________ | 
|  | Secretary of the Senate | 
|  | APPROVED: __________________ | 
|  | Date | 
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|  | __________________ | 
|  | Governor |