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, 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 insurance of any type, including 1-12 liability insurance, in any amounts, and from any insurers the 1-13 board considers advisable. 1-14 Sec. 6.109. Liability. 1-15 Neither a member of the board nor any employee of the board 1-16 is personally liable in the person's private capacity for any act 1-17 performed or for any contract or other obligation entered into or 1-18 undertaken in an official capacity in good faith and without intent 1-19 to defraud, in connection with the administration, management or 1-20 conduct of the board in its business, programs or other related 1-21 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.