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.