By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 580
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the application of certain statutes of limitations to
    1-2  certain districts and entities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 16.061, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 16.061.  Rights Not Barred.  (a)  A right of action of
    1-7  this state, a county, an incorporated city or town, a navigation
    1-8  district, a port authority, an entity acting under Chapter 341,
    1-9  Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 1187f,
   1-10  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or a school district is not barred
   1-11  by any of the following sections:  16.001-16.004, 16.006, 16.007,
   1-12  16.021-16.028, 16.030-16.032, 16.035-16.037, 16.051, 16.062,
   1-13  16.063, 16.065-16.067, 16.070, 16.071, 31.006, or 71.021.
   1-14        (b)  In this section:
   1-15              (1)  "Navigation district" means a navigation district
   1-16  organized under Article III, Section 52, or Article XVI, Section
   1-17  59, of the Texas Constitution.
   1-18              (2)  "Port authority" has the meaning assigned by
   1-19  Section 60.402, Water Code.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not apply
   1-21  to a right of action that became barred by a statute of limitations
   1-22  specified in Section 1 of this Act before the effective date of
   1-23  this Act.  That right of action remains barred as if this Act had
    2-1  not taken effect.
    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.