1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to filing a petition that initiates a condemnation
1-3 proceeding.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.013(b), Property Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) Except where otherwise provided by law, a party
1-8 initiating a condemnation proceeding in a county in which there is
1-9 one or more county courts at law with jurisdiction shall [may] file
1-10 the petition with any clerk authorized to handle such filings for
1-11 that court or courts.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1187 was passed by the House on May
4, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1187 was passed by the Senate on May
25, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor