By: Carona, Shapiro S.B. No. 974 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the recovery of environmental inspection, removal, and 1-2 remediation costs by a taxing unit that purchases real property at 1-3 an ad valorem tax sale. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 34.06, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), the purchasing taxing 1-8 unit is entitled to recover from the proceeds of a resale of the 1-9 property any cost incurred by the taxing unit in inspecting the 1-10 property to determine whether there is a release or threatened 1-11 release of solid waste from the property in violation of Chapter 1-12 361, Health and Safety Code, or a rule adopted or permit or order 1-13 issued by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission under 1-14 that chapter, or a discharge or threatened discharge of waste or a 1-15 pollutant into or adjacent to water in this state from a point of 1-16 discharge on the property in violation of Chapter 26, Water Code, 1-17 or a rule adopted or permit or order issued by the commission under 1-18 that chapter, and in taking action to remove or remediate the 1-19 release or threatened release or discharge or threatened discharge 1-20 regardless of whether the taxing unit: 1-21 (1) was required by law to incur the cost; or 1-22 (2) obtained the consent of each taxing unit entitled 1-23 to receive proceeds of the sale under the judgment of foreclosure 2-1 to incur the cost. 2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.