Amend HB 1129 by inserting the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS and renumbering SECTIONS of the bill 
appropriately:
	SECTION _____. Subchapter E, Chapter 212, Local Government 
Code, as redesignated by Chapter 1420, Acts of the 77th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is amended by adding Section 
212.1335 to read as follows:
	Sec. 212.1335. FORECLOSURE BY PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION.  
(a) A municipality may not participate in a suit or other proceeding 
to foreclose a property owners' association's lien on real 
property.
	(b) In a suit or other proceeding to foreclose a property 
owners' association's lien on real property in the subdivision, the 
association may not submit into evidence or otherwise use the work 
product of the municipality's legal counsel.
	SECTION _____. Section 212.1335, Local Government Code, as 
added 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.