By Gallegos                                           S.B. No. 1093
       74R4324 DLF-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to information to be provided to the attorney general for
    1-3  defense of claims against certain governmental employees and
    1-4  departments.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Article 42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 14 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 14.  INFORMATION REQUIRED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL.  The
    1-9  department shall provide information requested by the attorney
   1-10  general that the attorney general considers necessary for:
   1-11              (1)  the defense of an employee under Section 104.004,
   1-12  Civil Practice and Remedies Code, or Chapter 501, Labor Code; or
   1-13              (2)  the defense of the department in a civil action
   1-14  under Section 101.103(a), Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Section 142.004, Human Resources Code, is amended
   1-16  by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-17        (d)  A juvenile probation community service restitution
   1-18  program  shall provide information requested by the attorney
   1-19  general that the attorney general considers necessary for the
   1-20  defense under Section 104.004, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, of
   1-21  a person employed in the area of juvenile probation.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.