H.B. No. 740
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the sale by certain home-rule municipalities of land
    1-3  sold pursuant to foreclosure of an ad valorem tax lien.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 34, Tax Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 34.015 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 34.015.  ALTERNATE MANNER OF SALE.  Notwithstanding any
    1-8  other provision of this subchapter, the governing body of a
    1-9  municipality with a population of 1.5 million or more may provide
   1-10  for the manner in which land ordered sold pursuant to foreclosure
   1-11  of a tax lien in favor of the municipality may be sold if the land
   1-12  is sold to a charitable organization entitled to an exemption under
   1-13  Section 11.181 from ad valorem taxation on real property owned by
   1-14  the organization.
   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.