1-1 By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 984
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1993;
1-3 May 6, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 20, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 20, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the authority of certain state agencies to purchase
1-24 liability insurance.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 797, Acts of the 61st
1-27 Legislature, Regular Session, 1969 (Article 6252-19a, Vernon's
1-28 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-29 Sec. 1. (a) The State Departments or Agencies who own and
1-30 operate motor vehicles, aircraft and motorboats or watercraft of
1-31 all types and sizes shall have the authority to insure their
1-32 officers and employees from liability arising out of the use,
1-33 operation and maintenance of such automobiles, trucks, tractors,
1-34 power equipment, aircraft and motorboats or watercraft used or
1-35 which may be used in the operation of such Department or Agency.
1-36 Such insurance shall be provided by the purchase of a policy or
1-37 policies for that purpose from some liability insurance company or
1-38 companies authorized to transact business in the State of Texas.
1-39 All liability insurance so purchased shall be provided on a policy
1-40 form or forms approved by the State Board of Insurance as to form
1-41 and by the Attorney General as to liability.
1-42 (b) The State Departments and Agencies who receive federal
1-43 grant funds for a foster grandparent program shall also have the
1-44 authority to expend those funds to insure the person and property
1-45 of those foster grandparents as required by the grant.
1-46 (c) The State Departments and Agencies that operate
1-47 integrated day-care programs that serve children with mental
1-48 illness, children with developmental disabilities, or children who
1-49 participate in early childhood intervention programs, as well as
1-50 other children, may purchase insurance to cover liability arising
1-51 from the operation of the integrated day-care program.
1-52 (d) The State Departments and Agencies that operate
1-53 habilitative and rehabilitative work programs for persons who are
1-54 mentally ill or developmentally disabled may purchase insurance
1-55 from the proceeds of those programs to cover liability arising out
1-56 of the operation of those programs if the contractor will not
1-57 accept as sufficient the state's indemnification provisions.
1-58 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-59 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-60 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-61 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-62 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-63 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-64 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-65 * * * * *
1-66 Austin,
1-67 Texas
1-68 May 20, 1993
2-1 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-2 President of the Senate
2-3 Sir:
2-4 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
2-5 No. 984, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-6 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-7 pass and be printed.
2-8 Harris of
2-9 Dallas, Chairman
2-10 * * * * *
2-11 WITNESSES
2-12 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 984.