By Thompson H.B. No. 1515 75R4771 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the collection of fees for the use of municipal land as 1-3 a utility right-of-way. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 182.025, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) A city or town may not collect a fee described by 1-8 Subsection (a) after the second anniversary of the date the fee 1-9 becomes due, except through judicial proceedings filed in 1-10 accordance with Subsection (e). 1-11 (e) If the city or town seeks judicial relief to collect a 1-12 fee, the action must be filed not later than the second anniversary 1-13 of the date the fee becomes due. 1-14 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-15 (b) Sections 182.025(d) and (e), Tax Code, as added by this 1-16 Act, apply only to an action filed on or after September 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.