Bill Text: TX HB2007 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2007 (Prior Session Legislation)

TX State Legislature page for HB2007

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Bill Title: Relating to payment by the Benbrook Water Authority for certain damages caused by the authority's operation of a sanitary sewer system.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2007 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2007-Introduced.html

	82R7508 KYF-F

	By: Shelton	H.B. No. 2007



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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.