1-1     By:  Junell (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)                 H.B. No. 1174
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; April 28, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; April 28, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Harris
 1-8     1.  Amend H.B. 1174 by striking SECTION 1 and replacing it with the
 1-9     following:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 52.002(a), Property Code, is amended to
1-11     read as follows:
1-12           (a)  The attorney [On application] of a person in whose favor
1-13     a judgment is rendered in a small claims court or a justice court
1-14     may prepare an abstract of judgment or on application of that
1-15     person or of that person's agent, attorney, or assignee, the judge
1-16     or justice of the peace who rendered the judgment shall prepare and
1-17     deliver to the applicant an abstract of the judgment.
1-18                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-19                                   AN ACT
1-20     relating to preparation of an abstract of judgment in an action to
1-21     establish a lien on real property.
1-22           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23           SECTION 1.  Section 52.002(b), Property Code, is amended to
1-24     read as follows:
1-25           (b)  A person in whose favor a judgment is rendered in a
1-26     [court other than a] small claims court, [or] a justice court, or
1-27     another court or the person's agent, attorney, or assignee may
1-28     prepare the abstract of judgment.  The abstract of judgment must be
1-29     verified by the person preparing the abstract.
1-30           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-31     applies to an action filed before, on, or after that date.
1-32           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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