By:  Moncrief                                         S.B. No. 1049
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to venue for certain judicial actions involving
 1-2     intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 252.062, Health and
 1-5     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (d)  A suit for a temporary restraining order or other
 1-7     injunctive relief must be brought in Travis County or the county in
 1-8     which the alleged violation occurs.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  Subsection (e), Section 252.093, Health and
1-10     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-11           (e)  An action under this section must be brought in Travis
1-12     County or the county in which the violation is alleged to have
1-13     occurred.
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.