By Eckels, Stiles H.B. No. 2210 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a cause of action against a governmental entity or a 1-3 governmental risk pool. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 101.027, Civil Practice and Remedy Code, 1-6 is amended by adding subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 101.027. LIABILITY INSURANCE 1-8 (a) Each governmental unit may purchase insurance policies 1-9 protecting the unit and the unit's employees against claims under 1-10 this chapter. 1-11 (b) The policies may relinquish to the insurer the right to 1-12 investigate, defend, compromise, and settle any claim under this 1-13 chapter to which the insurance coverage extends. 1-14 (c) This state or a political subdivision of the state may 1-15 not require an employee to purchase liability insurance as a 1-16 condition of employment if the state or the political subdivision 1-17 is insured by a liability insurance policy. 1-18 (d) Nothing in this chapter shall permit a cause of action 1-19 against a governmental entity or a governmental risk pool and its 1-20 agents for the breach of any alleged duty of good faith and fair 1-21 dealing. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.