1-1     By:  Moncrief                                         S.B. No. 1049
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1999; March 10, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
 1-4     April 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to venue for certain judicial actions involving
 1-9     intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 252.062, Health and
1-12     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (d)  A suit for a temporary restraining order or other
1-14     injunctive relief must be brought in Travis County or the county in
1-15     which the alleged violation occurs.
1-16           SECTION 2.  Subsection (e), Section 252.093, Health and
1-17     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-18           (e)  An action under this section must be brought in Travis
1-19     County or the county in which the violation is alleged to have
1-20     occurred.
1-21           SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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