By Luna S.B. No. 953 76R3212 GJH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to vacating a judgment in a delinquent tax suit. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 33, Tax Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Section 33.56 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 33.56. VACATION OF JUDGMENT. (a) If, in a suit to 1-7 collect a delinquent tax, a court renders a judgment for 1-8 foreclosure of a tax lien on behalf of a taxing unit, the taxing 1-9 unit may file a petition to vacate the judgment for: 1-10 (1) failure to join a person needed for just 1-11 adjudication under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, including a 1-12 taxing unit required to be joined under Section 33.44(a); 1-13 (2) failure to serve a person needed for just 1-14 adjudication under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, including a 1-15 taxing unit required to be joined under Section 33.44(a); or 1-16 (3) failure of the judgment to adequately describe the 1-17 property that is the subject of the suit. 1-18 (b) The taxing unit must file the petition under the same 1-19 cause number as the delinquent tax suit and in the same court. 1-20 (c) The taxing unit may not file a petition if a tax sale of 1-21 the property has occurred unless the tax sale has been vacated by 1-22 an order of a court. 1-23 (d) A copy of the petition must be served on each party to 1-24 the delinquent tax suit. 2-1 (e) If the court grants the petition, the judgment is 2-2 vacated and the delinquent tax suit is revived. 2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately and applies 2-4 only to a judgment rendered on or after the effective date of this 2-5 Act. A judgment rendered before the effective date of this Act is 2-6 governed by the law in effect on the date the judgment was 2-7 rendered, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.