Bill Text: TX SB899 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the legislature's consent or approval of a settlement of a claim or action against this state.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB899 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB899-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the legislature's consent or approval of a settlement of a claim or action against this state.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB899 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB899-Introduced.html
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By: Ogden | S.B. No. 899 |
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relating to the legislature's consent or approval of a settlement | ||
of a claim or action against this state. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 111.003(a), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The attorney general or other attorney representing | ||
this state may not enter into a settlement of a claim or action | ||
against this state without the consent or approval of the | ||
legislature in accordance with this chapter if the settlement: | ||
(1) requires this state to pay total monetary damages | ||
in an amount that exceeds $10,000,000 [ |
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fiscal biennium; or | ||
(2) commits this state to a course of action that in | ||
reasonable probability will entail a continuing increased | ||
expenditure of state funds over subsequent state fiscal bienniums. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies to any settlement of a claim or | ||
action against this state on or after the effective date of this Act | ||
without regard to whether the claim or action commenced before, on, | ||
or after that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |