By Farrar                                              H.B. No. 740
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the sale of land pursuant to foreclosure by a home-rule
    1-3  municipality.
    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. 34.055.  ALTERNATE MANNER OF SALE.  Notwithstanding any
    1-8  other provision in this chapter, 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, shall be sold.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.