1-1  By:  Henderson                                         S.B. No. 899
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1995; March 6, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  April 4, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 4, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to preservation of property rights and the valuation of
    1-9  condemned property.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 21.042, Property Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (b)  If a part of or an entire tract or parcel of real
   1-14  property is condemned, the damage to the property owner is the
   1-15  local market value of the property at the time of the special
   1-16  commissioners' hearing or the property owner may elect to establish
   1-17  an earlier date of valuation and taking by proving (1) that the
   1-18  condemning authority manifested publicly the intention to take the
   1-19  property at such earlier date; (2) that the market value of the
   1-20  landowner's property at that time was higher than the date of
   1-21  valuation used by the condemnor; and (3) that said public
   1-22  manifestation by the condemning authority adversely affected the
   1-23  value of the real property in question.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-25        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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