Bill Text: TX SB1640 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to payment by the Benbrook Water Authority for certain damages caused by the authority's operation of a sanitary sewer system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [SB1640 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1640-Introduced.html
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| By: Davis | S.B. No. 1640 | |
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| relating to payment by the Benbrook Water Authority for certain | ||
| damages caused by the authority's operation of a sanitary sewer | ||
| system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 123, Acts of the 54th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 1955, is amended by adding Section 5A to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 5A. CERTAIN DAMAGES CAUSED BY SEWAGE BACKUP. (a) The | ||
| Authority may pay actual property damages caused by the backup of | ||
| the Authority's sanitary sewer system regardless of whether the | ||
| Authority 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 5A, Chapter 123, Acts of the 54th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 1955, 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. | ||
