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	Amend SB 472 (house committee report) as follows:                            

(1)  In SECTION 2 of the bill, in the recital (page 2, line 	16), between "adding Subsections" and "(d-1)", insert "(b-2), 
(b-3), (b-4),".
	(2)  In SECTION 2 of the bill, in amended Section 51.002,  
Property Code (page 3, between lines 3 and 4), insert the following:
	(b-2)  In addition to the notice required under Subsection 
(b), the county clerk of each county in which the property is 
located shall provide for notice of the sale to be published in a 
newspaper of general circulation in the county at least once each 
week for four consecutive weeks before the date of the sale, with 
the first publication appearing at least 28 days and not more than 
35 days before the date of the sale.  The notice must designate the 
place of the sale and provide a brief description of the property 
sufficient to identify the location of the property.  If all or part 
of the property is located in a county in which more than 90 percent 
of residential properties have affordable access to electronic 
publishing media obtained by broadband technology or the 
equivalent, the notice must also be posted on the newspaper's 
Internet website.  This subsection does not prohibit a newspaper in 
a county that does not satisfy that criteria from posting the notice 
on the newspaper's Internet website or prohibit the county clerk 
from requesting such a posting, if the published notice is 
published as the notice of record. The form of the notice must be 
substantially similar to the following:

NOTICE OF SALE: FORECLOSED PROPERTY

On the _____ day of _____, 20___, a foreclosure proceeding was 
issued on a deed of trust against said lienholder(s), as shown 
below, by filing a foreclosure proceeding with the county clerk of 
_______ County, Texas, as prescribed by law on the following 
property located in __________ County, Texas, which said lienholder 
_____ (lienholder's name) ought to pay. The lienholder(s) and all 
interested parties are hereby given notice that a foreclosure 
auction on said property will be conducted on ___________ 
(month/day/year), between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the 
_____________ (name of facility, with city, state, and  zip code).

(Name of mortgage holder, representative, telephone number, and 
address, including city, state, zip code, and any e-mail address).
	(b-3)  The newspaper in which the notice is published under 
Subsection (b-2) must hold a second class periodicals mailing 
permit and be published regularly and continuously in a county in 
which the property is located. The cost of the notice required under 
Subsection (b-2) may not exceed the lowest classified rate paid by 
users for comparable space in the newspaper in which the public 
notice appears, including all cash discounts, multiple insertion 
discounts, and similar benefits extended to the newspaper's regular 
customers.  A newspaper that publishes the notice shall submit a 
bill for publication with a clipping of the published notice and 
verified statement of the publisher that:
		(1)  states the charge;                                                
		(2)  certifies that the rate charged is the newspaper's 
lowest published rate for classified advertising; and
		(3)  certifies the number and dates of the publication.                
	(b-4)  Not later than the 25th day following the date of the 
sale of real property under this section, the lender or the lender's 
attorney shall execute and file with the county clerk of each county 
in which the property is located an affidavit that includes the 
publisher's affidavit required under Subsection (b-3) and states 
the facts of the sale procedure.