1-1  By:  Hamric (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                  H.B. No. 2980
    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
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 19, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to coverage for district judges and volunteer fire
   1-10  departments under the County Government Risk Management Pool.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 119.001, Local Government Code, is
   1-13  amended by adding Subdivision (5) to read as follows:
   1-14              (5)  "Volunteer fire department" means a fire
   1-15  department that is operated on a not-for-profit basis.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  Chapter 119, Local Government Code, is amended by
   1-17  adding Sections 119.010 and 119.011 to read as follows:
   1-18        Sec. 119.010.  CERTAIN COVERAGE AUTHORIZED; DISTRICT JUDGES.
   1-19  The pool may provide coverage against liability for the acts or
   1-20  omissions of a district judge whose judicial district is located,
   1-21  in whole or in part, within the geographic boundaries of a county
   1-22  participating in the pool that arise in the course and scope of the
   1-23  judge's official duties as a judge.  A county participating in the
   1-24  pool, a district judge from personal funds, or both the county and
   1-25  the judge, may pay the additional cost of this coverage.
   1-26        Sec. 119.011.  CERTAIN COVERAGE AUTHORIZED; VOLUNTEER FIRE
   1-27  DEPARTMENTS.  The pool may provide coverage against liability for
   1-28  the acts or omissions of:
   1-29              (1)  a volunteer fire department that contracts with a
   1-30  county participating in the pool for the provision of fire
   1-31  protection or fire-fighting equipment under Subchapter A, Chapter
   1-32  352;
   1-33              (2)  a volunteer for a fire department described by
   1-34  Subdivision (1), to the extent the acts or omissions arise in the
   1-35  course and scope of the volunteer's activities as a volunteer for
   1-36  the fire department; and
   1-37              (3)  a person described by Section 352.004(b).
   1-38        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-39  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-40  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-41  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-42  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-43  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-44  passage, and it is so enacted.
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