By Hunter of Nueces                                   H.B. No. 2221
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to immunity from liability of directors, officers, agents
    1-3  and employees of the Texas Catastrophe Property Insurance
    1-4  Association and its participating insurers.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 10, Article 21.49, Insurance Code, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 10.  Immunity From Liability.  There is <shall be> no
    1-9  liability on the part of and no cause of action of any nature
   1-10  arises <shall arise> against a director of the Association
   1-11  <association>, the Board or any of its staff, the Association or
   1-12  its officers, agents or employees, or <against> any participating
   1-13  insurer or its officers, directors, agents or employees, for any
   1-14  <inspections made under the plan of operation or any statements
   1-15  made in good faith> action or failure to act in the performance of
   1-16  powers and duties under this Act or the Association's plan of
   1-17  operation except that this immunity from liability and suit does
   1-18  not extend to any act or failure to act that is not in good faith
   1-19  and that involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of
   1-20  the law.  <by them in any reports or communications concerning
   1-21  risks submitted to the Association, or at any administrative
   1-22  hearings conducted in connection therewith under the provisions of
   1-23  this Act.>
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on September 1, 1995.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
    2-8  terms, and it is so enacted.