1-1 By: Carter (Senate Sponsor - Montford) H.B. No. 1293 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995; 1-3 May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic 1-4 Development; May 23, 1995, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 23, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the liability of entities that provide address database 1-9 information for 9-1-1 services. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 771.053(a), Health and Safety Code, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 (a) A service provider of telecommunications service 1-14 involved in providing 9-1-1 service or of an addressing system or 1-15 address database used in providing 9-1-1 service, a manufacturer of 1-16 equipment used in providing 9-1-1 service, or an officer or 1-17 employee of a service provider described by this subsection 1-18 involved in providing 9-1-1 service is not liable for any claim, 1-19 damage, or loss arising from the provision of 9-1-1 service unless 1-20 the act or omission proximately causing the claim, damage, or loss 1-21 constitutes gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional 1-22 misconduct. 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-24 applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that 1-25 date. An action that accrued before the effective date of this Act 1-26 is governed by the law applicable to the action as it existed 1-27 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is 1-28 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-34 * * * * *