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.