By:  Gallegos                                         S.B. No. 1093
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to information to be provided to the attorney general for
    1-2  defense of claims against certain governmental employees and
    1-3  departments.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 14 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 14.  INFORMATION REQUIRED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL.  The
    1-8  department shall provide information requested by the attorney
    1-9  general that the attorney general considers necessary for:
   1-10              (1)  the defense of an employee under Section 104.004,
   1-11  Civil Practice and Remedies Code, or Chapter 501, Labor Code; or
   1-12              (2)  the defense of the department in a civil action
   1-13  under Section 101.103(a), Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Section 142.004, Human Resources Code, is amended
   1-15  by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-16        (d)  A juvenile probation community service restitution
   1-17  program  shall provide information requested by the attorney
   1-18  general that the attorney general considers necessary for the
   1-19  defense under Section 104.004, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, of
   1-20  a person employed in the area of juvenile probation.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.