By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 220
       73R1744 DLF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to liability of health care clinics operated in
    1-3  conjunction with approved family practice residency training
    1-4  programs.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 61.506 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 61.506.  LIABILITY.  A clinic or other facility
    1-9  providing health care in conjunction with an approved family
   1-10  practice residency training program is a governmental unit subject
   1-11  to Chapter 101, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, and the
   1-12  limitation on the liability of the state government established
   1-13  under Section 101.023(a), Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
   1-14  applies.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act applies to all actions:
   1-16              (1)  commenced on or after the effective date of this
   1-17  Act; or
   1-18              (2)  pending on that effective date and in which the
   1-19  trial, or any new trial or retrial following motion, appeal, or
   1-20  otherwise, begins on or after that effective date.
   1-21        (b)  In an action commenced before the effective date of this
   1-22  Act, a trial, new trial, or retrial that is in progress on that
   1-23  effective date is governed by the law in effect immediately before
   1-24  that effective date, and that law is continued in effect for that
    2-1  purpose.
    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.