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79R5696 DAK-D

By:  Nixon                                                        H.B. No. 2989



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the applicability of limitations provisions for 
governmental entities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 16.061(a), Civil Practice and Remedies 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A right of action of this state or a political 
subdivision of the state, including a county, an incorporated city 
or town, a navigation district, a municipal utility district, a 
port authority, an entity acting under Chapter 54, Transportation 
Code, a school district, or an entity created under Section 52, 
Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is not 
barred by any of the following sections: [16.001-16.004,] 16.006, 
16.007, 16.021-16.028, 16.030-16.032, 16.035-16.037, 16.051, 
16.062, 16.063, 16.065-16.067, 16.070, 16.071, 31.006, or 71.021.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a cause of action that 
accrues on or after the effective date of this Act.  An action that 
accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law 
applicable to the action immediately before the effective date of 
this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.