By: Hilderbran H.B. No. 570 73R2098 LJD-D 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(b), Property Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (b) If an entire tract or parcel of real property is 1-7 condemned, the damage to the property owner is the local market 1-8 value of the property determined: 1-9 (1) at the time of the special commissioners' hearing; 1-10 and 1-11 (2) as if the public use for which the property is 1-12 condemned had not been proposed and will not occur, if the 1-13 announcement of the proposed public use decreases the local market 1-14 value. 1-15 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a 1-16 condemnation proceeding filed on or after the effective date of 1-17 this Act. A condemnation proceeding pending before the effective 1-18 date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the suit was 1-19 filed, and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.