By:  Jackson                                           H.B. No. 898
       73R4595 JD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the application to navigation districts of certain
    1-3  statutes of limitation.
    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, or a school district is not barred by any of the
   1-10  following sections:  16.001-16.004, 16.006, 16.007, 16.021-16.028,
   1-11  16.030-16.032, 16.035-16.037, 16.051, 16.062, 16.063,
   1-12  16.065-16.067, 16.070, 16.071, 31.006, or 71.021.
   1-13        (b)  In this section, "navigation district" means a
   1-14  navigation district organized under Article III, Section 52, or
   1-15  Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not apply
   1-17  to a right of action that became barred by a statute of limitation
   1-18  specified in Section 1 of this Act before the effective date of
   1-19  this Act.  That right of action remains barred as if this Act had
   1-20  not taken effect.
   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
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.