By Smith                                               H.B. No. 116
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to judicial review of a decision by a municipal board of
 1-3     adjustment.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 211.011(a),  Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A person aggrieved by a decision of the board, a
 1-8     taxpayer, or an officer, department, board, or bureau of the
 1-9     municipality [Any of the  following persons] may present to a court
1-10     of record a verified petition stating that the decision of the
1-11     board of adjustment is illegal in whole or in part and specifying
1-12     the grounds of the illegality.  In this subsection, "court of
1-13     record" means a district court, county court, county court at law,
1-14     or another court in which a written record of the proceedings
1-15     conducted before the court is maintained as provided by law [:]
1-16                 [(1)  a person aggrieved by a decision of the board;]
1-17                 [(2)  a taxpayer; or]
1-18                 [(3)  an officer, department, board, or bureau of the
1-19     municipality].
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.