Bill Text: TX SB1444 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to liability of certain electric utilities that allow certain uses of land that the electric utility owns, occupies, or leases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-05 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1444 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB1444-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 1444
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 18, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources and
Economic Development; April 22, 2015, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 1; April 22, 2015, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to liability of certain electric utilities that allow
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 75.0022(b), Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is repealed.
SECTION 2. 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 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, 2015.
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