By Park                                                H.B. No. 307
       74R1134 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a municipality's authority to obtain a lien against
    1-3  certain dangerous structures.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 214.001(o), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (o)  If the notice is given and the opportunity to repair,
    1-8  remove, or demolish the building is afforded to each mortgagee and
    1-9  lienholder as authorized by Subsection (d) or (e), the lien is a
   1-10  privileged lien subordinate only to:
   1-11              (1)  tax liens; and
   1-12              (2)  all <previously> recorded bona fide mortgage liens
   1-13  attached to the real property before September 1, 1995, and before
   1-14  the date <to which> the municipality's lien attaches.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.