By Junell                                       H.B. No. 2425

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to a cause of action for violation of collegiate athletic

 1-3     association rules by certain regional collegiate athletic

 1-4     associations.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 131.001(3), Civil Practice and Remedies

 1-7     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-8                 (3)  "Regional collegiate athletic association" means a

 1-9     regional collegiate athletic association with one or more [the

1-10     majority] of its member institutions in Texas.

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a cause of action that

1-12     accrues on or after the effective date of this Act.  An action that

1-13     accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by the

1-14     law applicable to the action immediately before the effective date

1-15     of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.