By:  Montford                                         S.B. No. 1350
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to venue for actions brought under the Tort Claims Act.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 101.102, Civil Practice
    1-4  and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (a)  A suit under this chapter shall be brought in state
    1-6  court in the county in which the injury occurred <cause of action
    1-7  or a part of the cause of action arises>.
    1-8        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a suit commenced on or
    1-9  after the effective date of this Act.  A suit commenced before the
   1-10  effective date of this Act is governed by the law applicable to the
   1-11  suit immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
   1-12  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-14        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.