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.

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