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.