Bill Text: TX HB931 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to liability of certain electric utilities that contract with political subdivisions for certain uses of land that the electric utility owns, occupies, or leases.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 18-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB931 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB931-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 931

AN ACT
relating to liability of certain electric utilities that contract
with political subdivisions for certain uses of land that the
electric utility owns, occupies, or leases.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 75.007(e), Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(e) This section does not affect Section 75.001, 75.002,
[75.0021,] 75.003, or 75.004 or create or increase the liability of
any person.
SECTION 2. Sections 75.0021 and 75.0022(b), Civil Practice
and Remedies Code, are repealed.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
this Act. A cause of action that accrues before the effective date
of this Act is governed by the law applicable to the cause of action
immediately before that date, and that law is continued in effect
for that purpose.
SECTION 4. 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, 2017.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 931 was passed by the House on May 11,
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 5, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 931 on May 28, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 83, Nays 46, 1
present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 931 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor