Bill Text: TX HB1751 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to payment by a water control and improvement district for certain damages caused by the district's operation of a sanitary sewer system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-12 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1751 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1751-Introduced.html
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| By: Hartnett | H.B. No. 1751 | |
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| relating to payment by a water control and improvement district for | ||
| certain damages caused by the district's operation of a sanitary | ||
| sewer system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 51, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 51.340 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.340. CERTAIN DAMAGES CAUSED BY SEWAGE BACKUP. (a) | ||
| A district may pay actual property damages caused by the backup of | ||
| the district's sanitary sewer system regardless of whether the | ||
| district would be liable for the damages under Chapter 101, Civil | ||
| Practice and Remedies Code. | ||
| (b) This section does not waive governmental immunity from | ||
| suit or liability. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.340, Water Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| applies only to damages caused by the backup of a sanitary sewer | ||
| system on or after September 1, 2011. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
