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.