87R8085 AJA-F
By: Hughes S.B. No. 1929
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the availability of certain remedies for the burdening
by a government agency of a person's free exercise of religion.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 110.005(c), Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(c) An action under this section must be brought in a state
or federal district court.
SECTION 2. Section 110.008, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 110.008. SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY WAIVED. (a) Subject to
Section 110.006 and except as provided by Subsection (b), sovereign
immunity to suit and from liability is waived and abolished in state
and federal court to the extent of liability created by Section
110.005, and a claimant may sue a government agency for damages
allowed by that section.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), this chapter does not
waive or abolish sovereign immunity to suit and from liability
under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution,
which prohibits the citizens of another state or the citizens or
subjects of a foreign state from suing this state or any arm of this
state in federal court.
SECTION 3. Chapter 110, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
is amended by adding Section 110.013 to read as follows:
Sec. 110.013. LAWS REGULATING OR RESTRICTING ABORTION NOT
AFFECTED. Nothing in this chapter may be construed to limit the
enforcement of any law regulating or restricting abortion or any
law that withholds taxpayer funds from entities that perform or
promote abortions.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.