By Martin                                             H.B. No. 2271
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2271:
          By Counts                                         C.S.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, and declaring an emergency.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Chapter 6, Texas Water Code, is amended by adding
    1-8  Sections 6.108 and 6.109 to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 6.108.  Power to Purchase Insurance.
   1-10        The board may purchase for its members, appointees, and
   1-11  employees and pay premiums on liability insurance, in any amounts,
   1-12  and from any insurers the board considers advisable.
   1-13        Sec. 6.109.  Liability.
   1-14        Pursuant to the limited waiver of governmental immunity of
   1-15  the 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 business,
   1-21  programs or other related affairs.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-23  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and imperative public necessity that the constitutional
    2-2  rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house
    2-3  be suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from
    2-4  and after its passage, and it is so enacted.