Bill Text: TX SB1336 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain construction liability claims concerning public buildings and public works.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1336 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1336-Introduced.html
88R4516 AJA-F | ||
By: Creighton | S.B. No. 1336 |
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relating to certain construction liability claims concerning | ||
public buildings and public works. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2272.002(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) This chapter does not apply to: | ||
(1) a claim for personal injury, survival, or wrongful | ||
death; | ||
(2) a claim involving the construction of residential | ||
property covered under Chapter 27, Property Code; | ||
(3) a contract entered into by the Texas Department of | ||
Transportation; or | ||
(4) a project that receives money from a state or | ||
federal highway fund[ |
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SECTION 2. Chapter 2272, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 2272.0025 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2272.0025. WAIVER PROHIBITED. This chapter may not be | ||
waived. A purported waiver of this chapter in violation of this | ||
section is void. | ||
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 under a contract entered into on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. A cause of action that accrued before the | ||
effective date of this Act or that accrues on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act under a contract entered into before the effective | ||
date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |