1-1 By: Harris S.B. No. 56
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 16, 1998; January 26, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 15, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0;
1-6 February 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 56 By: Ellis
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to abatement of common nuisances.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 125.001, Civil Practice
1-13 and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (c) Subsection (b) applies only to a multiunit residential
1-15 property, as that term is defined by Section 125.041, [as amended
1-16 by Section 1, Chapter 818, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1995,]
1-17 that is located in a municipality [that has a population of at
1-18 least 440,000].
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-20 applies only to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date
1-21 of this Act. Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
1-22 Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the conduct
1-23 occurred, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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