Amend HB 1129 by inserting the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS and renumbering SECTIONS of the bill 
appropriately:
	SECTION _____. Section 212.133, Local Government Code, as 
redesignated by Chapter 1420, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular 
Session, 2001, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 212.133. SUIT TO ENFORCE RESTRICTIONS. (a) Except as 
provided by Subsection (b), the [The] municipality may sue in any 
court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin or abate a violation of a 
restriction contained or incorporated by reference in a properly 
recorded plan, plat, or other instrument that affects a subdivision 
located inside the boundaries of the municipality.
	(b) The municipality may not initiate or maintain a suit to 
enjoin or abate a violation of a restriction if a property owners' 
association with the authority to enforce the restriction files 
suit to enforce the restriction.
	(c) In a suit by a property owners' association to enforce a 
restriction, the association may not submit into evidence or 
otherwise use the work product of the municipality's legal counsel.
	SECTION _____. Section 212.133, Local Government Code, as 
redesignated by Chapter 1420, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular 
Session, 2001, and amended by this Act, applies only to a suit filed 
on or after the effective date of this Act.  A suit filed before the 
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect 
immediately before that date, and that law is continued in effect 
for that purpose.