By Ellis                                        S.B. No. 1251

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the liability of municipalities for claims arising from

 1-3     land acquired at a sale following the foreclosure of a lien held by

 1-4     the municipality.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 101.064(a), Civil Practice and Remedies

 1-7     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (a)  This section applies [only] to a municipality [with a

 1-9     population of 1.5 million or more] that acquires land at a sale

1-10     following the foreclosure of a lien held by the municipality.

1-11           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only

1-12     to a claim brought against a municipality that is filed with a

1-13     court on or after the effective date of this Act.  A claim filed

1-14     with a court before the effective date of this Act is governed by

1-15     the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this

1-16     Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.

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,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.