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. 1-38 * * * * * 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 1-60 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-61 Name: DeMetris Sampson x 1-62 Representing: Heard, Guggan, Blair & Williams 1-63 City: Dallas 1-64 -------------------------------------------------------------------