80R8836 CAE-D
 
  By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1560
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to damages in wrongful death and survival actions on
health care liability claims.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 74.303, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
       (f)  Notwithstanding Section 74.001(a)(2) and any other
provision of this chapter, in a wrongful death or survival action on
a health care liability claim, the limitations in Section 74.301
shall be applied individually to each person, including a
decedent's estate, seeking or who sought recovery of damages.
       SECTION 2.  Section 74.303(f), Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a health care liability
claim filed on or after the effective date of this Act.  A health
care liability claim filed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law that existed 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, 2007.