1-1 By: Hilbert (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 1187
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to filing a petition that initiates a condemnation
1-9 proceeding.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 21.013(b), Property Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (b) Except where otherwise provided by law, a party
1-14 initiating a condemnation proceeding in a county in which there is
1-15 one or more county courts at law with jurisdiction shall [may] file
1-16 the petition with any clerk authorized to handle such filings for
1-17 that court or courts.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.
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