By Thompson H.B. No. 2271 75R7784 CAS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the liability of certain persons concerning abandoned 1-3 property. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 74.705, Property Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-7 (f) In this section, "person" does not include a local 1-8 governmental entity or an officer or employee of a local 1-9 governmental entity who is performing the officer's or employee's 1-10 official duties for the local governmental entity. 1-11 SECTION 2. (a) Section 74.705(f), Property Code, as added 1-12 by this Act, does not apply to interest accruing, attorney's fees 1-13 for which approval is filed, or a suit for a civil penalty filed 1-14 under Section 74.705(a), (b), or (e), respectively, before the 1-15 effective date of this Act. 1-16 (b) Section 74.705(f), Property Code, as added by this Act, 1-17 does not apply to an offense committed before the effective date of 1-18 this Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed 1-19 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense 1-20 occurs before that date. 1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-22 SECTION 4. 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.