75R10147 CAG-D                           

         By Keel                                               H.B. No. 2141

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2141:

         By Hill                                           C.S.H.B. No. 2141

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the seizure and sale of certain property by certain

 1-3     municipalities.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 214.004, Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 214.004.  SEIZURE AND SALE OF PROPERTY TO RECOVER

 1-8     EXPENSES.  A Type A general-law municipality or home-rule

 1-9     municipality may foreclose a lien on property under this

1-10     subchapter:

1-11                 (1)  in a proceeding relating to the property brought

1-12     under Subchapter E, Chapter 33, Tax Code; or

1-13                 (2)  in a judicial proceeding, if:

1-14                       (A)  a building or other structure on the

1-15     property has been demolished;

1-16                       (B)  a lien for the cost of the demolition of the

1-17     building or other structure on the property has been created and

1-18     that cost has not been paid more than 180 days after the date the

1-19     lien was filed; and

1-20                       (C)  ad valorem taxes are delinquent on all or

1-21     part of the property.

1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.