Bill Text: TX HB3079 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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| By: Raymond | H.B. No. 3079 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3079: | |||
| By: Raymond | C.S.H.B. No. 3079 | ||
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| 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. | ||
