Bill Text: TX SB947 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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) 2017-03-20 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB947 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB947-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 947 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 17, 2017; March 1, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; | ||
March 20, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 20, 2017, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 947 | By: Nichols |
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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 75.007(e), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) This section does not affect Section 75.001, 75.002, | ||
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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and Remedies Code, are repealed.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. | ||
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