By Hamric                                             H.B. No. 2650

         75R7118 MLS-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the application of certain statutes of limitation and

 1-3     statutes relating to the revival or survival of a cause of action

 1-4     to hospital districts.

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

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 16.061, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,

 1-7     is amended to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 16.061.  RIGHTS NOT BARRED.  (a)  A right of action of

 1-9     this state, a county, an incorporated city or town, a navigation

1-10     district, a port authority, an entity acting under Chapter 341,

1-11     Acts of the 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961 (Article 1187f,

1-12     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), a hospital district, or a school

1-13     district is not barred by any of the following sections:

1-14     16.001-16.004, 16.006, 16.007, 16.021-16.028, 16.030-16.032,

1-15     16.035-16.037, 16.051, 16.062, 16.063, 16.065-16.067, 16.070,

1-16     16.071, 31.006, or 71.021.

1-17           (b)  In this section:

1-18                 (1)  "Hospital district" means a hospital district

1-19     created under the authority of Sections 4 through 11, Article IX,

1-20     Texas Constitution.

1-21                 (2)  "Navigation district" means a navigation district

1-22     organized under Article III, Section 52, or Article XVI, Section

1-23     59, [of the] Texas Constitution.

1-24                 (3) [(2)]  "Port authority" has the meaning assigned by

 2-1     Section 60.402, Water Code.

 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

 2-3     applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that

 2-4     date.  A cause of action that accrues before the effective date of

 2-5     this Act is governed by the law applicable to the action

 2-6     immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is

 2-7     continued in effect for that purpose.

 2-8           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.