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By:  Whitmire                                                     S.B. No. 1811


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to service of process of a sports and community venue 
district located in a populous county.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 335, Local Government Code, is hereby 
amended by adding a new Section 335.005, as follows:
	Sec. 335.005.  SUITS; SERVICE OF PROCESS.  A district, 
through its board, may sue and be sued in any court of this state in 
the name of the district.  Service of process on a district may be 
had by serving either the current Chairman of the board or the 
current Chief Executive Officer of the district.
	SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the 
crowded condition of the calendars of both houses create an 
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.