1-1  By:  Farrar (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                   H.B. No. 740
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 1995;
    1-3  May 5, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the sale by certain home-rule municipalities of land
   1-10  sold pursuant to foreclosure of an ad valorem tax lien.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 34, Tax Code, is amended by
   1-13  adding Section 34.015 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 34.015.  ALTERNATE MANNER OF SALE.  Notwithstanding any
   1-15  other provision of this subchapter, the governing body of a
   1-16  municipality with a population of 1.5 million or more may provide
   1-17  for the manner in which land ordered sold pursuant to foreclosure
   1-18  of a tax lien in favor of the municipality may be sold if the land
   1-19  is sold to a charitable organization entitled to an exemption under
   1-20  Section 11.181 from ad valorem taxation on real property owned by
   1-21  the organization.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-28  passage, and it is so enacted.
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