1-1 By: Jackson (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 898
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 1993;
1-3 March 30, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Sims x
1-9 Truan x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Brown x
1-14 Carriker x
1-15 Lucio x
1-16 Montford x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the application of certain statutes of limitation to
1-22 certain districts and entities.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Section 16.061, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
1-25 is amended to read as follows:
1-26 Sec. 16.061. Rights Not Barred. (a) A right of action of
1-27 this state, a county, an incorporated city or town, a navigation
1-28 district, a port authority, an entity acting under Chapter 341,
1-29 Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 1187f,
1-30 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or a school district is not barred
1-31 by any of the following sections: 16.001-16.004, 16.006, 16.007,
1-32 16.021-16.028, 16.030-16.032, 16.035-16.037, 16.051, 16.062,
1-33 16.063, 16.065-16.067, 16.070, 16.071, 31.006, or 71.021.
1-34 (b) In this section:
1-35 (1) "Navigation district" means a navigation district
1-36 organized under Article III, Section 52, or Article XVI, Section
1-37 59, of the Texas Constitution.
1-38 (2) "Port authority" has the meaning assigned by
1-39 Section 60.402, Water Code.
1-40 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act does not apply
1-41 to a right of action that accrued, or may arise under the terms of
1-42 a contract entered into, before the effective date of this Act.
1-43 That right of action remains barred as if this Act had not taken
1-44 effect.
1-45 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-50 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-51 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-52 * * * * *
1-53 Austin,
1-54 Texas
1-55 May 25, 1993
1-56 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-57 President of the Senate
1-58 Sir:
1-59 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
1-60 No. 898, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-61 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-62 pass and be printed.
1-63 Sims,
1-64 Chairman
1-65 * * * * *
1-66 WITNESSES
1-67 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 898.