was allegedly traveling the wrong way down the Interstate 45 High-Occupancy Vehicle ("HOV”) lane when the accident occurred. Russell alleges that Metro potentially bears proportionate responsibility for the accident because (1) Metro controls access to the HOV lane, and (2) Metro failed to repair or maintain the gate at the entrance to the HOV lane where Sais gained access. 2 . The term "insurance carrier” is defined to include "a governmental entity that self-insures, either individually or collectively,” such as Metro. See Tex. Lab.Code § 401.011(27)(D). 3 . Russell points us to several cases in which declaratory-judgment actions related to determining parties’ rights under a statute or ordinance were held not to implicate governmental immunity. See, e.g., Leeper, 893 S.W.2d at 446 (<HOLDING>); Tex. Highway Comm’n v. Tex. Ass’n of Steel
recognizing that under texas law governmental immunity embraces two principles immunity from liability and immunity from suit holding that the prosecution in a subsequent action of claims that had been compulsory counterclaims in a previously filed declaratoryjudgment action violated  65440 holding governmental immunity was not implicated in a declaratoryjudgment action seeking an interpretation of a competitive bidding statute as applied to the highway commissions policy of requiring all materials furnished under contracts be manufactured in the united states holding a declaratoryjudgment action was proper to construe compulsory school attendance law and did not implicate governmental immunity holding governmental immunity not implicated and a declaratoryjudgment action proper to seek determination of whether plaintiffs were motor carriers for purposes of tax statute