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.