By Cuellar of Hidalgo H.B. No. 375 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to billing for an assessment by certain municipalities for 1-3 expenses incurred in relation to certain neglected property. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 342.007, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (h) A bill for an amount assessed under this section may be 1-8 included on or with a bill for property taxes on the assessed 1-9 property. The inclusion of or failure to include a bill for the 1-10 amount assessed with a bill for property taxes does not alter or 1-11 affect the priority or date of attachment of the lien, if any, for 1-12 the amount assessed. 1-13 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 214, Local Government Code, 1-14 is amended by adding Section 214.004 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 214.004. BILL FOR ASSESSMENT. A bill for an amount 1-16 assessed under this subchapter may be included on or with a bill 1-17 for property taxes on the assessed property. The inclusion of or 1-18 failure to include a bill for the amount assessed with a bill for 1-19 property taxes does not alter or affect the priority or date of 1-20 attachment of the lien, if any, for the amount assessed. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.