1-1 By: Harris (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 2165
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1993;
1-3 May 12, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 May 21, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
1-5 Nays 0; May 21, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Montford x
1-9 Turner x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Ellis x
1-14 Haley x
1-15 Moncrief x
1-16 Parker x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Sims x
1-19 Truan x
1-20 Zaffirini x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the liability of a taxing unit for certain costs.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 33.49(a), Tax Code, is amended to read as
1-26 follows:
1-27 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, a
1-28 taxing unit is not liable in a suit to collect taxes for court
1-29 costs, including any fees for service of process, arbitration, or
1-30 mediation, and may not be required to post security for costs.
1-31 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-37 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-39 Austin,
1-40 Texas
1-41 May 21, 1993
1-42 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-43 President of the Senate
1-44 Sir:
1-45 We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred H.B. No. 2165,
1-46 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-47 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-48 pass and be printed.
1-49 Montford,
1-50 Chairman
1-51 * * * * *
1-52 WITNESSES
1-53 FOR AGAINST ON
1-54 ___________________________________________________________________
1-55 FOR AGAINST ON
1-56 ___________________________________________________________________
1-57 Name: Ray M. Cornett x
1-58 Representing: Tax Assessor Collector Assoc
1-59 City: Angleton
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1-61 Name: DeMetris Sampson x
1-62 Representing: Heard, Guggan, Blair & Williams
1-63 City: Dallas
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