1-1     By:  Craddick (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)               H.B. No. 1058
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
 1-4     Development; May 14, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
 1-6     May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1058              By:  Armbrister
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to limiting the liability of a municipality for certain
1-11     recreational activities.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 75.002, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
1-14     is amended by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
1-15           (e)  In this section, "recreation" means, in addition to its
1-16     meaning under Section 75.001, the following activities only if the
1-17     activities take place inside a facility owned, operated, or
1-18     maintained by a municipality:
1-19                 (1)  hockey and in-line hockey; and
1-20                 (2)  skating, in-line skating, roller-skating,
1-21     skateboarding, and roller-blading.
1-22           (f)  This section limits the liability of a municipality only
1-23     for those damages arising directly from a recreational activity
1-24     described by Subsection (e).
1-25           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-26     applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
1-27     date.  An action that accrued before the effective date of this Act
1-28     is governed by the law applicable to the action immediately before
1-29     the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
1-30     for that purpose.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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