1-1     By:  Hochberg (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                 H.B. No. 509
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to disputes concerning enforcement of deed restrictions in
1-10     justice court.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 27.034, Government Code, is amended by
1-13     adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
1-14           (j)  Nothing in this section authorizes a justice of the
1-15     peace to grant a writ of injunction.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The purpose of this Act is to clarify that the
1-17     authority that a justice of the peace is granted under Section
1-18     27.034, Government Code, in a deed restriction dispute does not
1-19     include the authority to grant an injunction.
1-20           SECTION 3.  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,
1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.
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