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Legislators:
Tort reform
is top priority
What’s up
By Melanie Perkins
Staff Writer
Next to paying the state’s bills, tort
reform is the most important issue
facing the 70th Texas Legislature,
state Reps. Richard Smith, R-Bryan,
and Mike McKinney, D-Centerville,
said Monday.
In a press conference at Bryan
City Hall, the two legislators said
predictability needs to be restored to
the Texas civiljustice system.
The people of Texas want
change, Smith said, and the mass of
business and opinion-makers in
Texas believe there is a need for
change and are pressing for it.
Citing a recent University of
Texas poll, Smith said 83 percent of
Texans surveyed favored limiting at
torneys’ fees, 67 percent supported
limits on damages for pain and suf
fering, and 72 percent favored pun
ishment for those who File frivolous
lawsuits.
“It is appropriate for the legis
lature — which is acting on behalf of
the people of this state — to set limits
on what can be recovered and on the
punishment metered out for various
activites,” Smith said.
The repxesentatives offered sug
gestions for reform, including: abo
lishment of joint liability, statutory
limitation on punitive damages, stat
utory limitations on all non-eco-
nomic elements of damage, collat
eral sources of payments, structured
awards for future damages exceed
ing $100,000 and appropriate sanc
tions for filing of frivolous lawsuits.
The insurance industry and civil
justice system need study, Smith
said, because “the desire of some to
make awards to compensate for the
personal risk of everyday life has
made a lottery of our civiljustice sys
tem.”
In a recent news release, McKin
ney said, “Tort law should be re
turned to credible and fault-based
compensation that provides for a
fair and reasonable level of recovery
to deserving plantiffs through a
more predictable and affordable lia
bility-allocating mechanism.”
McKinney said during the press
conference that tort reform proba
bly will pass in the House, and even
though it might be an uphill battle in
the Senate, a reasonable tort reform
will pass.
He said member associations sup
porting liability reform in Texas in
clude physicians, engineers, insur
ance agents, architects and
newspapers.
“Caring and responsibility must
be shared in an equitable fashion,”
McKinney said in the news release,
“so that harm is appropriately com
pensated, innocent parties are not
unfairly blamed for the wrong
doings of others and the public is not
saddled with costs they should not
bear.”
Tuesday
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIO|
will present speakers from Arthur Anderson Sc Co.ail
p.m. in the Ramada Inn Penthouse. The speech willed
cern careers in data processing programs
AGGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: willm
at 8:30 p.m. in 274 Read. New members are welcome.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: will hold a meeting for prospeak S
members at 7 p.m. in 224 MSC.
DELTA SIGMA PI: will meet at f> p.m. in 130 Blocker, jent |
MSC ALL-NIGHT FAIR: will hold an informationalmetitjIran a
for interested organizations at 7 p.m. in 401 Rudder, questi
MSC BIG EVENT COMMIT I KE: ns ill meet at f.:3ll pr
Rudder Tower. (See monitor for room.) s , et W
MSC DISCOVERY: will hold a presentation of studentoi{§|
nizations and committees in the MSC main hall from t hc t
a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Wednesday. name
TAMU SAILING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 109Mfa of the
Sciences. lo\m
TAMU PALEONTOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 8 p.m inlft ret
Halbouty. te ‘
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: smII In.Id meeting for:-' dis( ' u !
members at 8:30 p.m. in 701 Rudder. outsic
TAMU FLYING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. at the L i "In
terwood Airport clubhouse. piesk
AGGIE LEAGUE OF ENGINEERS: will meet at 7:30pr c l ue j st
104 B Zachry. | S ? 1<1 .
COOKE COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p Jehut
in 604 A-B Rudder. 0 f t h t
SOUTHERN BRAZORIA ( <>l VIA H () M KTOWN CUi tuur <
will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder.
TAMU HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet at
in 115 Kleberg.
MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY: will meet at
Rudder.
p.m. in:
Wednesday
MSC GREAT ISSUES: will meet at 7 p.m. iti 212 MSC.
MSC POLITICAL FORUM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 206MS
MSC CAM AC: will meet at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
TAMU RODEO CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in the DickFn
man Rodeo Arena.
GAY STUDENT SERVICES: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in5(17
B Rudder.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: will hold a meeting for pros
members at 7 p.m. in 224 MSC.
OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet at 6 p.m. in 203 Zachn
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at:
p.m. in 504 Rudder.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 9:30 p.m. on the secondfl
of the Flying Tomato.
NAVARRO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m.in
Rudder.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: vs
at 7 p.m. (Check 1BA billboard in the Blocker Building
location).
PRE-VET SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 230 Veterim
Medicine Complex.
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will hold a car show fror.
a.m. to 5 p.m. at Rudder Fountain, and will meet at 7
in 225 MSC.
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Student Affairs and Student Af fairs office.
MSC LITERARY ARTS: is now accepting submissions!
Litmus. Call 845-1515 for more information.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battik
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AUSTIN (AP) — A statewide
anti-crime organization demanded
Monday that the Legislature stop
early releases of violent prison in
mates.
The top item in the eight-point
crime package offered by Associated
Texans Against Crime was repeal of
the 95 percent occupancy limit for
Texas prisons.
“We know the prison system is
overcrowded, but with this revolving
door at Huntsville we have a higher
crime rate than we should have,”
Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Plano, said,
speaking for ATAC.
Johnson said the slaying last week
of a Texas Ranger near Marble Falls
by a paroled prisoner was an exam
ple.
“They (the prison system) knew
he was violent and they should have
kept him in there,” Johnson said.
Sen. J.E. “Buster” Brown, R-Lake
Jackson, ATAC chairman, said he
and other legislators would push the
eight-part crime package
drawn up after a series of f«
heai ings across the state.
“ There is no need to layoff
crime measures just because
prisons are crowded,” Browfb
“Criminals don’t take a vacawi:
because of our budget problem
Brc >wn said repeal of,the!ffl
Management Act, which set*
percent cap, would force theli
lature to solve the prison af
problem.
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Interested people are urged to attend our meetinj
January 27 at the Airport Clubhouse
For information
Call Bret Orr 696-2434
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