By Ellis S.B. No. 1252
75R4704 SMH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the sale by a municipality of land acquired under a
1-3 foreclosure of an ad valorem tax lien.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 34.015, Tax Code, is amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 Sec. 34.015. ALTERNATE MANNER OF SALE. Notwithstanding any
1-8 other provision of this subchapter, the governing body of a
1-9 municipality [with a population of 1.5 million or more] may provide
1-10 for the manner in which land ordered sold pursuant to foreclosure
1-11 of a tax lien in favor of the municipality may be sold if the land
1-12 is sold to a charitable organization entitled to an exemption under
1-13 Section 11.181 from ad valorem taxation on real property owned by
1-14 the organization.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.