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.