By Hinojosa H.B. No. 1694 75R6393 MI-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the limitation of liability for a water supply 1-3 corporation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 101, Civil Practice and 1-6 Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 101.0235 to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 Sec. 101.0235. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: WATER SUPPLY 1-9 CORPORATIONS. (a) The liability of a water supply corporation is 1-10 limited to money damages in a maximum amount of $250,000 for each 1-11 person and $500,000 for each single occurrence for bodily injury or 1-12 death and $100,000 for each single occurrence for injury to or 1-13 destruction of property. 1-14 (b) The limitation of liability authorized by this section 1-15 applies only to a cause of action arising out of fire prevention or 1-16 fire protection activities for which the water supply corporation 1-17 supplied the water. 1-18 (c) In this section, "water supply corporation" has the 1-19 meaning assigned by Section 13.002, Water Code. 1-20 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-21 (b) The change in law made by Section 101.0235, Civil 1-22 Practice and Remedies Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a 1-23 cause of action that accrues on or after September 1, 1997. A 1-24 cause of action that accrued before September 1, 1997, is governed 2-1 by the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of 2-2 this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.