1-1 By: Junell (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 833 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997; 1-3 April 10, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; April 29, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 29, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the exemption of state-owned real property from forced 1-9 sale. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Chapter 43, Property Code, is amended by adding 1-12 Section 43.002 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 43.002. EXEMPT PROPERTY. The real property of the 1-14 state, including the real property held in the name of state 1-15 agencies and funds, and the real property of a political 1-16 subdivision of the state are exempt from attachment, execution, and 1-17 forced sale. A judgment lien or abstract of judgment may not be 1-18 filed or perfected against the state, a unit of state government, 1-19 or a political subdivision of the state on property owned by the 1-20 state, a unit of state government, or a political subdivision of 1-21 the state; any such judgment lien or abstract of judgment is void 1-22 and unenforceable. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-29 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-30 * * * * *