By Naishtat                                           H.B. No. 2911
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to venue in certain actions regarding intermediate care
 1-3     facilities for the mentally retarded.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 252.062(d), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  A suit for a temporary restraining order or other
 1-8     injunctive relief must be brought in Travis County or in the county
 1-9     in which the alleged violation occurs.
1-10           SECTION 2.  Section 252.093(e), Health and Safety Code, is
1-11     amended to read as follows:
1-12           (e)  An action under this section must be brought in Travis
1-13     County or in the county in which the facility is located.
1-14           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.