Bill Text: TX HB4115 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to certain suits filed against a governmental unit and an employee of the governmental unit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB4115 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4115-Introduced.html

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86R7662 LED-D
By: Sanford H.B. No. 4115

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain suits filed against a governmental unit and an
employee of the governmental unit.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 101.106(e), Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(e) If a suit is filed asserting a claim for which this
chapter waives sovereign or governmental immunity [under this
chapter] against both a governmental unit and any of its employees,
the claim against the employee [employees] shall immediately be
dismissed on the filing of a motion by the governmental unit.
SECTION 2. Section 101.106(e), Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to an action filed on or
after the effective date of this Act. An action that is filed
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
applicable to the action immediately before the effective date of
this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.