By Galloway S.B. No. 923 75R5677 DAK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the participation of a municipality in a class action 1-3 suit. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 17, Civil Practice and 1-6 Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 17.006 to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 Sec. 17.006. MUNICIPALITY AS PLAINTIFF IN CLASS ACTION SUIT. 1-9 A municipality may be entered into a class action suit as a 1-10 plaintiff only by an affirmative vote of the governing body of the 1-11 municipality. 1-12 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-13 to: 1-14 (1) a class action suit filed on or after the 1-15 effective date of this Act; or 1-16 (2) intervention by a municipality in an existing 1-17 class action suit on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-19 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.