By George H.B. No. 3378 76R7746 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the remedies available in a suit to abate a public 1-3 nuisance. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 125.022, Civil Practice and Remedies 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (h) If requested by an owner of property determined under 1-8 this section to be a nuisance, the court may order that property to 1-9 be conveyed to a nonprofit neighborhood association to be used for 1-10 a public purpose. A transfer under this subsection is in place of 1-11 any penalty the court may impose under Subsection (e). 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.