Bill Text: TX HB3198 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exercise of eminent domain authority by certain charitable corporations.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB3198 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3198-Introduced.html
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| By: Coleman | H.B. No. 3198 | |
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| relating to the exercise of eminent domain authority by certain | ||
| charitable corporations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 178 (S.B. 289), Acts of the | ||
| 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 3183b-1, Vernon's | ||
| Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1. Except as provided by this section, and | ||
| notwithstanding any other law, any [ |
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| incorporated under the laws of this state for purely charitable | ||
| purposes and which is directly affiliated or associated with a | ||
| medical center having a medical school recognized by the Council on | ||
| Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association | ||
| as an integral part of its establishment, and which has for a | ||
| purpose of its incorporation the provision or support of medical | ||
| facilities or services for the use and benefit of the public, and | ||
| which is situated in any county of this state having a population in | ||
| excess of six hundred thousand (600,000) inhabitants according to | ||
| the most recent Federal Census shall have the power of eminent | ||
| domain and condemnation for the purposes set forth in Section 2 and | ||
| Section 3 of this Act. A charitable corporation described by this | ||
| section may not exercise the power of eminent domain and | ||
| condemnation to acquire a detached, single-family residential | ||
| property or a multifamily residential property that contains eight | ||
| or fewer dwelling units. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 1, Chapter 178 (S.B. 289), Acts of the | ||
| 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 3183b-1, Vernon's | ||
| Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by this Act, applies only to a | ||
| condemnation in which a condemnation petition is filed on or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. A condemnation in which a | ||
| condemnation petition is filed before the effective date of this | ||
| Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the | ||
| effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
