By Duncan                                             H.B. No. 2290
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to venue for actions brought under the Tort Claims Act.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 101.102, Civil Practice
    1-5  and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  A suit under this chapter shall be brought in state
    1-7  court in the county in which the injury occurred <cause of action
    1-8  or a part of the cause of action arises>.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
   1-10  a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
   1-11  this Act.  A cause of action that accrues before the effective date
   1-12  of this article is governed by the law in effect on the date the
   1-13  cause of action accrued, and that law is continued in effect for
   1-14  this purpose.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect September
   1-16  1, 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 4.  SEVERABILITY.  If any section, sentence, clause,
   1-18  or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such
   1-19  invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and
   1-20  it is hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to
   1-21  have passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of
   1-22  the fact that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be
   1-23  declared invalid.
    2-1        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-2  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.