By Farrar H.B. No. 741 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a municipality's liability for claims arising from land 1-3 acquired pursuant to foreclosure. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 101, Civil Practice and 1-6 Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 101.064 to read as 1-7 follows: Sec. 101.064 LAND ACQUIRED PURSUANT TO FORECLOSURE. This 1-8 chapter does not apply to claims arising from land acquired 1-9 pursuant to foreclosure of a tax lien by a municipality with a 1-10 population of 1.5 million or more, if the claim arises after the 1-11 date the municipality acquired the land, and before the 1-12 municipality sells, conveys, or exchanges the land or the 1-13 expiration of one year, whichever occurs first. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of the legislation and the crowded 1-15 condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and 1-16 an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule 1-17 requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be 1-18 suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act 1-19 take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is 1-20 so enacted.