Bill Text: TX HB2710 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the duty of an attorney ad litem to locate and represent a defendant in a suit to collect a delinquent ad valorem tax.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2710 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2710-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2710 | ||
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| relating to the duty of an attorney ad litem to locate and represent | ||
| a defendant in a suit to collect a delinquent ad valorem tax. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 33, Tax Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 33.475 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.475. ATTORNEY AD LITEM REPORT; APPROVAL OF FEES. | ||
| (a) In a suit to collect a delinquent tax, an attorney ad litem | ||
| appointed by a court to represent the interests of a defendant | ||
| served with process by means of citation by publication or posting | ||
| shall submit to the court a report describing the actions taken by | ||
| the attorney ad litem to locate and represent the interests of the | ||
| defendant. | ||
| (b) The court may not approve the fees of the attorney ad | ||
| litem until the attorney ad litem submits the report required by | ||
| this section and the court determines that the actions taken by the | ||
| attorney ad litem as described in the report were sufficient to | ||
| discharge the attorney's duties to the defendant. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an attorney ad litem appointed to represent the interests of a | ||
| defendant in a delinquent tax suit on or after the effective date of | ||
| this Act. An attorney ad litem appointed to represent the interests | ||
| of a defendant in a delinquent tax suit before the effective date of | ||
| this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the attorney | ||
| was appointed, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2710 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 12, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2710 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
