Bill Text: TX HB3079 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of a statute of limitations to certain actions to enforce a right or remedy provided by the Texas Constitution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3079 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3079-Comm_Sub.html

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84R25649 LED-F
By: Raymond H.B. No. 3079
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3079:
By: Raymond C.S.H.B. No. 3079

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability of a statute of limitations to
certain actions to enforce a right or remedy provided by the Texas
Constitution.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 16.051, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 16.051. RESIDUAL LIMITATIONS PERIOD. Every action for
which there is no express limitations period, except an action for
the recovery of real property and an action to enforce a right or
remedy provided by Section 50(a)(6), Article XVI, Texas
Constitution, must be brought not later than four years after the
day the cause of action accrues.
SECTION 2. The amendment by this Act of Section 16.051,
Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is intended to clarify rather
than change existing law. An action to enforce a right or remedy
provided by Section 50(a)(6), Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is
not time barred regardless of when the cause of action accrued and
may be brought on or after the effective date of this Act
notwithstanding any application of a statute of limitations to an
action filed before the effective date of this Act asserting the
same cause of action.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.