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.