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 landowners for use of their
 1-3     land for certain recreational purposes.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 75.001(3), Civil Practice and Remedies
 1-6     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (3)  "Recreation" means an activity such as:
 1-8                       (A)  hunting;
 1-9                       (B)  fishing;
1-10                       (C)  swimming;
1-11                       (D)  boating;
1-12                       (E)  camping;
1-13                       (F)  picnicking;
1-14                       (G)  hiking;
1-15                       (H)  pleasure driving;
1-16                       (I)  nature study, including bird-watching;
1-17                       (J)  cave exploration;
1-18                       (K)  waterskiing and other water sports; [or]
1-19                       (L)  hockey and in-line hockey;
1-20                       (M)  skating, in-line skating, roller-skating,
1-21     skateboarding, and roller-blading; or
1-22                       (N)  any other activity associated with enjoying
1-23     nature or the outdoors.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
 2-1     applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
 2-2     date.  An action that accrued before the effective date of this Act
 2-3     is governed by the law applicable to the action immediately before
 2-4     the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
 2-5     for that purpose.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.