By: Parker S.B. No. 1327 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the ability of the Texas Water Development Board to 1-2 obtain insurance and exempting Texas Water Development Board 1-3 members and employees from personal liability relating to board 1-4 business. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 6, Water Code, is amended 1-7 by adding Sections 6.108 and 6.109 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 6.108. POWER TO PURCHASE INSURANCE. The board may 1-9 purchase for its members, appointees, and employees and pay 1-10 premiums on insurance of any type, including liability insurance, 1-11 in any amounts and from any insurers the board considers advisable. 1-12 Sec. 6.109. LIABILITY. Neither a member of the board nor 1-13 any employee of the board is personally liable in the person's 1-14 private capacity for any act performed or for any contract or other 1-15 obligation entered into or undertaken in an official capacity in 1-16 good faith and without intent to defraud in connection with the 1-17 administration, management, or conduct of the board in its 1-18 business, programs, or other related affairs. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.