1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to preparation of an abstract of judgment in an action to
1-3 establish a lien on real property.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 52.002(a), Property Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The attorney [On application] of a person in whose favor
1-8 a judgment is rendered in a small claims court or a justice court
1-9 may prepare an abstract of judgment or on application of that
1-10 person or of that person's agent, attorney, or assignee, the judge
1-11 or justice of the peace who rendered the judgment shall prepare and
1-12 deliver to the applicant an abstract of the judgment.
1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-14 applies to an action filed before, on, or after that date.
1-15 SECTION 3. 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.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1174 was passed by the House on March
25, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1174 on May 8, 1999, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1174 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 6, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor