73R8499 LJD-F By Hilderbran H.B. No. 570 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 570: By Averitt C.S.H.B. No. 570 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the determination of value in condemnation proceedings. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 21.042, Property Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-6 (f) Local market value before the condemnation shall be 1-7 determined as if the public use for which the property is condemned 1-8 had not been proposed and will not occur, if the announcement of 1-9 the proposed public use decreases the local market value. 1-10 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a 1-11 condemnation proceeding filed on or after the effective date of 1-12 this Act. A condemnation proceeding pending before the effective 1-13 date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the suit was 1-14 filed, and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.