By Solomons                                           H.B. No. 1881
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1881:
          By Tillery                                        C.S.H.B. No. 1881
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to governmental liability and the liability of certain
    1-3  persons for acts or omissions in connection with court-ordered
    1-4  activities of a juvenile offender.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 54, Family Code, is amended by adding
    1-7  Section 54.12 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 54.12.  LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.  (a)  In this section:
    1-9              (1)  "Governmental unit" has the meaning assigned by
   1-10  Section 101.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
   1-11              (2)  "Person" means an individual, organization,
   1-12  association, corporation, or partnership.  The term does not
   1-13  include a governmental unit.
   1-14        (b)  A person who serves as court approved sponsor for a teen
   1-15  court program under Section 54.032 of the Family Code has no
   1-16  greater liability for damages arising from an act or omission than
   1-17  a court of this state or any member of a court of this state acting
   1-18  in his or her official capacity or to a judicial function of a
   1-19  governmental unit in connection with community service or other
   1-20  activity, including a work, educational, or treatment activity
   1-21  performed by a child under a court order.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 101, Civil Practice and
   1-23  Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 101.064 to read as
   1-24  follows:
    2-1        Sec. 101.064.  COMMUNITY SERVICE OR ACTIVITY PERFORMED BY
    2-2  JUVENILE.  (a)  This chapter does not apply to a claim arising in
    2-3  connection with community service or other activity, including a
    2-4  work, educational, or treatment activity, performed by a child
    2-5  under a juvenile court order or under an order of any court having
    2-6  jurisdiction over an offense committed by the child.
    2-7        (b)  This section does not apply to a claim arising in
    2-8  connection with an activity performed by a child while committed to
    2-9  the Texas Youth Commission.
   2-10        SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   2-11  to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
   2-12  this Act.  An action that accrued before the effective date of this
   2-13  Act is governed by the law applicable to the action immediately
   2-14  before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
   2-15  effect for that purpose.
   2-16        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-17        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.