Amend CSSB 7 by inserting the following appropriately 

numbered SECTIONS and renumbering SECTIONS appropriately:

	SECTION ____.  Section 6, Chapter 178, Acts of the 56th 

Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 3183b-1, Vernon's 

Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

	Sec. 6.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this 

section, the [The] power of eminent domain granted by this Act shall 

be exercised in accordance with Chapter 21, Property Code [the 

procedure, conditions, and provisions as prescribed in Title 52, 

Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended].

	(b)  If a charitable corporation to which this Act applies 

seeks to acquire any real property by condemnation or seeks to 

purchase any real property that the corporation intends to use in a 

manner that would no comply with any deed restriction that applies 

to the property immediately before the purchase, before the 

charitable corporation initiates condemnation proceedings or 

records the deed conveying title to the property the charitable 

corporation shall, in addition to providing any other notice 

required by law, provide written notice to the owner of record of 

each unit of real property:

		(1)  that the charitable corporation seeks to acquire or 

purchase; or

		(2)  that is not more than 200 feet from any boundary of 

any unit of real property the charitable corporation seeks to 

acquire or purchase.

	SECTION ____.  The changes in law made by this Act to Chapter 

178, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 

3183b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), apply to the acquisition 

of real property by eminent domain or the purchase of real property 

on or after the effective date of this Act unless condemnation 

proceedings are initiated or a deed conveying title to the property 

is filed before the effective date of this Act, in which event the 

acquisition or purchase is governed by the law in effect at the time 

the proceedings are initiated or the deed is filed, and the former 

law is continued in effect for that purpose.  The changes in law 

made by this Act to Chapter 178, Acts of the 56th Legislature, 

Regular Session, 1959 (Article 3183b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil 

Statutes), do not apply to acquisition of real property by eminent 

domain or the purchase of real property before the effective date of 

this Act.