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                               * * * * *