By Bonnen                                             H.B. No. 2890
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the applicability of Chapter 76, Property Code to
 1-3     school districts.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 76.001, Property Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 76.001.  Applicability.  This chapter applies only to
 1-8     the holder of property if:
 1-9                 (1)  the holder is a municipality, school district, or
1-10     county; and
1-11                 (2)  the property is:
1-12                       (A)  presumed abandoned under Chapter 72 or 75;
1-13     and
1-14                       (B)  valued at $100 or less.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.