By Craddick                                           H.B. No. 1058
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to limiting the liability of a municipality for certain
 1-3     recreational activities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 75.002, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-7           (e)  In this section, "recreation" means, in addition to its
 1-8     meaning under Section 75.001, the following activities only if the
 1-9     activities take place at a facility owned, operated, or maintained
1-10     by a municipality:
1-11                 (1)  hockey and in-line hockey; and
1-12                 (2)  skating, in-line skating, roller-skating,
1-13     skateboarding, and roller-blading.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-15     applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
1-16     date.  An action that accrued before the effective date of this Act
1-17     is governed by the law applicable to the action immediately before
1-18     the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
1-19     for that purpose.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.