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         By Eiland                                             H.B. No. 3736
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3736:
         By Krusee                                         C.S.H.B. No. 3736
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the applicability of procedures governing restrictive
 1-3     covenants in certain residential subdivisions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 201.001(a), Property Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  This chapter applies to a residential real estate
 1-8     subdivision that is located in whole or in part:
 1-9                 (1)  within a city that has a population of more than
1-10     100,000, or within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of such a
1-11     city;  [or]
1-12                 (2)  in the unincorporated area of:
1-13                       (A)  a county having a population of 2,400,000 or
1-14     more; or
1-15                       (B)  a county having a population of 190,000 or
1-16     more that is adjacent to a county having a population of 2,400,000
1-17     or more; or
1-18                 (3)  in the incorporated area of a county having a
1-19     population of 190,000 or more that is adjacent to a county having a
1-20     population of 2,400,000 or more.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.