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.