By: Burnam H.B. No. 3726
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to civil liability for selling or serving alcoholic
beverages.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 33.002(c), Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(c) This chapter does not apply to:
(1) an action to collect workers' compensation
benefits under the workers' compensation laws of this state
(Subtitle A, Title 5, Labor Code) or actions against an employer for
exemplary damages arising out of the death of an employee;
(2) a claim for exemplary damages included in an
action to which this chapter otherwise applies; [or]
(3) a cause of action for damages arising from the
manufacture of methamphetamine as described by Chapter 99; or
(4) an action under Chapter 2 or Chapter 106,
Alcoholic Beverage Code.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to an
action filed on or after the effective date of this Act or pending
on the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.