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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