By Martin                                             H.B. No. 2271
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the ability of the Texas Water Development Board to
    1-3  obtain insurance and exempting Texas Water Development Board
    1-4  members and employees from personal liability relating to board
    1-5  business.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 6, Water Code, is amended
    1-8  by adding Sections 6.108 and 6.109 to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 6.108.  POWER TO PURCHASE INSURANCE.  The board may
   1-10  purchase for its members, appointees, and employees and pay
   1-11  premiums on liability insurance in any amounts and from any
   1-12  insurers the board considers advisable.
   1-13        Sec. 6.109.  LIABILITY.  Pursuant to the limited waiver of
   1-14  governmental immunity of Chapter 101, Civil Practice and Remedies
   1-15  Code (Texas Tort Claims Act), neither a member of the board nor any
   1-16  employee of the board is personally liable in the person's private
   1-17  capacity for any act performed or for any contract or other
   1-18  obligation entered into or undertaken in an official capacity in
   1-19  good faith and without intent to defraud, in connection with the
   1-20  administration, management, or conduct of the board in its
   1-21  business, programs, or other related affairs.
   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,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.