By Puente                                             H.B. No. 2310
         76R12173 E                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain notice provisions for violations of certain
 1-3     municipal ordinances.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 342.006(c), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  In a notice provided under this section, a [The]
 1-8     municipality [in the notice of a violation] may inform the owner by
 1-9     regular [certified] mail and a posting on the property[, return
1-10     receipt requested,] that if the owner commits another violation of
1-11     the same kind or nature that poses a danger to the public health
1-12     and safety on or before the first anniversary of the date of the
1-13     notice, the municipality without further notice may correct the
1-14     violation at the owner's expense and assess the expense against the
1-15     property.  If a violation covered by a notice under this subsection
1-16     occurs within the one-year period, and the municipality has not
1-17     been informed in writing by the owner of an ownership change, then
1-18     the municipality without notice may take any action permitted by
1-19     Subsections (a)(1) and (2) and assess its expenses as provided by
1-20     Section 342.007.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.