By Seidlits                                                H.B. 562
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the venue in an action against a municipality.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 15.015, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Section 15.015.  COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES.  An action in a
    1-7  county shall be brought in that county.  An action against a
    1-8  municipality, against a municipality and any other party, or
    1-9  against an officer or employee of a municipality to recover for an
   1-10  injury that occurred in the county in which the municipality is
   1-11  situated, shall be brought in the county in which the municipality
   1-12  is situated.  In the event the municipality is situated in more
   1-13  than one county the action shall be brought in the county in which
   1-14  the city hall is situated.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-16  applies only to suits that are filed on or after the effective date
   1-17  of this Act.  Suits that are filed before the effective date of
   1-18  this Act are governed by the law in effect on the date the suits
   1-19  were filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-20  purpose.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.