Sec. 107.002.  EFFECT OF GRANT OF PERMISSION.  (a)  A resolution that grants a person permission to sue the state has the following effect and the permission is granted subject to the following conditions:
(1)  the claimant may sue for any relief to which the claimant is entitled as a result of the described claim;
(2)  the suit must be filed before the second anniversary of the effective date of the resolution;
(3)  service of citation and other required process must be made on the attorney general and on a person named in the resolution as a representative of the affected state agency;
(4)  the suit must be tried as other civil suits;
(5)  neither the state, nor any of its employees, agents, departments, agencies, or political subdivisions, admits to liability for, or to the truth of, any allegation asserted by the claimant;
(6)  the alleged cause of action must be proved under the law of this state as in other civil suits;
(7)  the state does not waive any defense, of law or fact, available to the state or to any of its employees or agents;
(8)  the state reserves every defense, except the defense of immunity from suit without legislative permission;
(9)  the state's ability to plead res judicata to any issue is not affected;
(10)  the state does not grant permission to recover exemplary or punitive damages;
(11)  the state's sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is not waived;  and
(12)  the state does not grant permission to be sued in any federal court.
(b)  A resolution granting permission to sue does not waive to any extent immunity from liability.
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 524, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 31, 1987.