By Harris H.B. No. 2165 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the liability of a taxing unit for certain costs. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 33.49, Property Tax Code shall be amended 1-5 to read as follows: 1-6 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, a 1-7 taxing unit is not liable in a suit to collect taxes for court 1-8 costs, including any fees for service of process, arbitration or 1-9 mediation, and may not be required to post security for the costs. 1-10 (b) No change. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.