TO: | Honorable Royce West, Chair, Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB1174 by Hartnett (Relating to payment by a municipality or river authority for certain damages caused by the municipality's or river authority's operation of a sanitary sewer system.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted |
The bill would authorize a municipality or a river authority to pay actual property damages caused by the backup of the municipality's or river authority's sanitary sewer system regardless of whether the municipality or river authority would otherwise be liable for the damages. Provisions of the bill would not waive governmental immunity from suit or liability.
Provisions of the bill would apply to damage caused by the backup of a sanitary sewer system on or after March 1, 2007.
The bill would take effect immediately if it was to receive the required two-thirds vote in each house; otherwise, it would take effect September 1, 2009.
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LBB Staff: | JOB, DB
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