FORTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

SECOND SESSION, 2004

 

February 10, 2004

 

 

 

Mr. Speaker:

 

    Your BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

 

HOUSE BILL 390

 

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

 

     1. On page 1, line 21, after "having" insert a comma and after "property" insert a comma.

 

     2. On page 2, line 2, after "having" insert a comma and after "vehicle" insert a comma.

 

     3. On page 2, line 8, strike “public safety” and insert in

 lieu thereof “environment”.

 

     4. On page 3, line 6, after "having" insert a comma and after "property" insert a comma.

 

     5. On page 6, between lines 20 and 21, insert the following new subsection:

 

          "D. When one hundred twenty days have passed following seizure of a clandestine drug laboratory, and remediation efforts have not yet commenced, the real property shall revert to the person who holds the mortgage on the real property. The mortgage holder shall assume responsibility to remediate the real property. If the mortgage holder refuses ownership of the real property, then the appropriate local government agency shall condemn the real property. When remediation efforts begin before one hundred twenty days have passed following seizure of a clandestine drug laboratory, but those efforts are not completed before two hundred forty days have passed following the seizure, the real property shall revert to the person who holds the mortgage on the real property. The mortgage holder shall assume responsibility to remediate the real property. If the mortgage holder refuses ownership of the real property, then the appropriate local government agency shall condemn the real property.".

 

     6. Reletter the succeeding subsections accordingly.,

 

 

 

and thence referred to the JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.                         

                             Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

                                                                 

Fred Luna, Chairman

 

 

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

 

Date

 

 

The roll call vote was 10 For 0 Against

Yes:      10

Excused:  Hobbs, Luna, Ruiz, Taylor, TC.

Absent:   None

 

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