1-1  By:  Cuellar of Hidalgo (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)       H.B. No. 375
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 19, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to billing for an assessment by certain municipalities for
   1-10  expenses incurred in relation to certain neglected property.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 342.007, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-13  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-14        (h)  A bill for an amount assessed under this section may be
   1-15  included on or with a bill for property taxes on the assessed
   1-16  property.  The inclusion of or failure to include a bill for the
   1-17  amount assessed with a bill for property taxes does not alter or
   1-18  affect the priority or date of attachment of the lien, if any, for
   1-19  the amount assessed.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 214, Local Government Code,
   1-21  is amended by adding Section 214.004 to read as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 214.004.  BILL FOR ASSESSMENT.  A bill for an amount
   1-23  assessed under this subchapter may be included on or with a bill
   1-24  for property taxes on the assessed property.  The inclusion of or
   1-25  failure to include a bill for the amount assessed with a bill for
   1-26  property taxes does not alter or affect the priority or date of
   1-27  attachment of the lien, if any, for the amount assessed.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-33  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-34  passage, and it is so enacted.
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