AN ACT
 1-1     relating to abatement of common nuisances.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 125.001, Civil Practice
 1-4     and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-5           (c)  Subsection (b) applies only to a multiunit residential
 1-6     property, as that term is defined by Section 125.041, [as amended
 1-7     by Section 1, Chapter 818, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1995,]
 1-8     that is located in a municipality [that has a population of at
 1-9     least 440,000].
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-11     applies only to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date
1-12     of this Act.  Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
1-13     Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the conduct
1-14     occurred, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 56 passed the Senate on
         March 2, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 56 passed the House on
         May 25, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor