By Longoria H.B. No. 1905 76R6710 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the commissioners court of a county to 1-3 contract for the collection of delinquent ad valorem taxes. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 6.30, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) The commissioners court of a county may enter into a 1-8 contract under Subsection (c) only with the advice and consent of 1-9 the county assessor-collector. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2000. The 1-11 change in law made by this Act applies only to a contract for the 1-12 collection of delinquent ad valorem taxes that is entered into on 1-13 or after January 1, 2000. A contract for the collection of 1-14 delinquent ad valorem taxes that was entered into before January 1, 1-15 2000, is governed by the law in effect when the contract was 1-16 entered into, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-17 purpose. 1-18 SECTION 3. 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.