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
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   1-52                               WITNESSES
   1-53                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
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   1-55                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
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   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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