1-1 By: Martin (Senate Sponsor - Parker) H.B. No. 2271
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1993;
1-3 May 12, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; May 25, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-6 May 25, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2271 By: Carriker
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the ability of the Texas Water Development Board to
1-24 obtain liability insurance, and exempting Texas Water Development
1-25 Board members and employees from personal liability relating to
1-26 board business, and declaring an emergency.
1-27 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-28 SECTION 1. Chapter 6, Texas Water Code, is amended by adding
1-29 Sections 6.108 and 6.109 to read as follows:
1-30 Sec. 6.108. Power to Purchase Liability Insurance.
1-31 The board may purchase for its members, appointees, and
1-32 employees and pay premiums on liability insurance, in any amounts,
1-33 and from any insurers the board considers advisable.
1-34 Sec. 6.109. Liability.
1-35 Neither a member of the board nor any employee of the board
1-36 is personally liable in the person's private capacity for any act
1-37 performed or for any contract or other obligation entered into or
1-38 undertaken in an official capacity in good faith and without intent
1-39 to defraud, in connection with the administration, management or
1-40 conduct of the board in its business, programs or other related
1-41 affairs.
1-42 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-43 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and imperative public necessity that the constitutional
1-45 rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house
1-46 be suspended, and this Act take effect and be in force from and
1-47 after its passage, and it is so enacted.
1-48 * * * * *
1-49 Austin,
1-50 Texas
1-51 May 25, 1993
1-52 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-53 President of the Senate
1-54 Sir:
1-55 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
1-56 No. 2271, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-57 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-58 that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in
1-59 lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
1-60 Sims,
1-61 Chairman
1-62 * * * * *
1-63 WITNESSES
1-64 FOR AGAINST ON
1-65 ___________________________________________________________________
1-66 Name: Gary Bechtol x
1-67 Representing: TX Water Development Board
1-68 City: Austin
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2-2 Name: Gail Allan x
2-3 Representing: TX Water Development Board
2-4 City: Austin
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