By: Lindsay S.B. No. 1684
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to writs of possession.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Chapter 33, Property Tax Code, is amended by
1-4 adding Section 33.51 to read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 33.51. WRIT OF POSSESSION.
1-6 If the court orders the foreclosure of a tax lien and the
1-7 sale of real property, the judgment shall provide for the issuance
1-8 of a writ of possession to the purchaser at the sale or his assigns
1-9 [within 20 days after the period of redemption expires].
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses creates an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.