By Ellis S.B. No. 1251
75R6922 CAG-D
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.