By:  Munoz                                            H.B. No. 1667
       73R6258 DLF-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to civil actions against certain independent contractors
    1-3  for services provided to a governmental entity.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 101.023, Civil Practice and Remedies
    1-6  Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  A person who provides emergency medical services using
    1-8  an emergency medical services vehicle as an independent contractor
    1-9  for a unit of local government is liable for bodily injury or death
   1-10  or injury to or destruction of property only to the extent that the
   1-11  unit of local government is liable under this section.  In this
   1-12  subsection, "emergency medical services" and "emergency medical
   1-13  services vehicle" have the meanings assigned by Section 773.003,
   1-14  Health and Safety Code.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-16  applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
   1-17  date.  An action that accrued before the effective date of this Act
   1-18  is governed by the law in effect at the time the action accrued,
   1-19  and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.