By Puente                                       H.B. No. 1623

      75R6889 JD-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the resale of land acquired under a foreclosure of an

 1-3     ad valorem tax lien.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 34.05(g), Tax Code, is amended to read as

 1-6     follows:

 1-7           (g)  Sections 263.001 and 272.001(a), Local Government Code,

 1-8     do not apply to property sold by a taxing unit in a municipality

 1-9     with a population of 935,000 [1.5 million] or more under this

1-10     section.

1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.