By Carter                                             H.B. No. 1293
       74R2962 DLF-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the liability of entities that provide address database
    1-3  information for 9-1-1 services.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 771.053(a), Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A service provider of telecommunications service
    1-8  involved in providing 9-1-1 service or of an addressing system or
    1-9  address database used in providing 9-1-1 service, a manufacturer of
   1-10  equipment used in providing 9-1-1 service, or an officer or
   1-11  employee of a service provider described by this subsection
   1-12  involved in providing 9-1-1 service is not liable for any claim,
   1-13  damage, or loss arising from the provision of 9-1-1 service unless
   1-14  the act or omission proximately causing the claim, damage, or loss
   1-15  constitutes gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional
   1-16  misconduct.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-18  applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
   1-19  date.  An action that accrued before the effective date of this Act
   1-20  is governed by the law applicable to the action as it existed
   1-21  immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
   1-22  continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  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.