1-1  By:  Talton (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)              H.B. No. 1454
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 1995, reported favorably, as
    1-5  amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 17, 1995,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                            By:  Patterson
    1-8        Amend H.B. 1454 by adding a new subsection (b) to read as
    1-9  follows and relettering subsequent sections:
   1-10        "(b)  The trustee shall identify the true owner of the
   1-11  property to a municipality or county."
   1-12                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-13                                AN ACT
   1-14  relating to requirements for certain political subdivisions that
   1-15  acquire real property held in trust.
   1-16        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-17        SECTION 1.  Chapter 280, Local Government Code, is amended by
   1-18  adding Section 280.002 to read as follows:
   1-19        Sec. 280.002.  ACQUIRING LAND HELD IN TRUST.  (a)  A
   1-20  municipality or county may not purchase real property held in trust
   1-21  until the trustee submits to the governing body of the municipality
   1-22  or county a copy of the trust agreement identifying the true owner
   1-23  of the property.
   1-24        (b)  A conveyance of property by a trustee is void if a
   1-25  municipality or county fails to comply with Subsection (a).
   1-26        (c)  A trust agreement submitted to the governing body of the
   1-27  municipality or county under this section is confidential
   1-28  information excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021,
   1-29  Government Code.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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