By Jackson H.B. No. 898 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 898: By Yost C.S.H.B. No. 898 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of certain statutes of limitation to 1-3 certain districts and entities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 16.061, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, 1-6 is amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 16.061. Rights Not Barred. (a) A right of action of 1-8 this state, a county, an incorporated city or town, a navigation 1-9 district, a port authority, an entity acting under Chapter 341, 1-10 Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 1187f, 1-11 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or a school district is not barred 1-12 by any of the following sections: 16.001-16.004, 16.006, 16.007, 1-13 16.021-16.028, 16.030-16.032, 16.035-16.037, 16.051, 16.062, 1-14 16.063, 16.065-16.067, 16.070, 16.071, 31.006, or 71.021. 1-15 (b) In this section: 1-16 (1) "Navigation district" means a navigation district 1-17 organized under Article III, Section 52, or Article XVI, Section 1-18 59, of the Texas Constitution. 1-19 (2) "Port authority" has the meaning assigned by 1-20 Section 60.402, Water Code. 1-21 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act does not apply 1-22 to a right of action that accrued, or may arise under the terms of 1-23 a contract entered into, before the effective date of this Act. 1-24 That right of action remains barred as if this Act had not taken 2-1 effect. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.