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.