By:  Carter                                           H.B. No. 2301
       73R5366 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the time title to forfeited property vests in the
    1-3  state.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 59.06(f), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  A final judgment of forfeiture under this chapter
    1-8  perfects the title of the state to the property as of the date that
    1-9  the act or omission giving rise to the forfeiture occurred
   1-10  <contraband was seized or the date the forfeiture action was filed,
   1-11  whichever occurred first>, except that if the property forfeited is
   1-12  real property, the title is perfected as of the date a notice of
   1-13  lis pendens is filed on the property.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-15  only to forfeiture of property based on an act or omission that
   1-16  occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-17        (b)  Forfeiture of property based on an act or omission that
   1-18  occurred before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
   1-19  law in effect when the act or omission occurred, and the former law
   1-20  is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.