Amend CSHB 4 (Senate committee printing) by striking 
Subsection (d), SECTION 24.02 of the bill (page 50, lines 37-42), 
and substituting the following:
	(d)  Except as otherwise provided in this section or by a 
specific provision in an article, this Act applies only to an action 
filed on or after the effective date of this Act.  An action filed 
before the effective date of this Act, including an action filed 
before that date in which a party is joined or designated after that 
date, is governed by the law in effect immediately before the change 
in law made by this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that 
purpose.