1-1  By:  Gallegos                                         S.B. No. 1093
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 14, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  April 28, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 28, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to information to be provided to the attorney general for
    1-9  defense of claims against certain governmental employees and
   1-10  departments.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Article 42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-13  amended by adding Section 14 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 14.  INFORMATION REQUIRED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL.  The
   1-15  department shall provide information requested by the attorney
   1-16  general that the attorney general considers necessary for:
   1-17              (1)  the defense of an employee under Section 104.004,
   1-18  Civil Practice and Remedies Code, or Chapter 501, Labor Code; or
   1-19              (2)  the defense of the department in a civil action
   1-20  under Section 101.103(a), Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  Section 142.004, Human Resources Code, is amended
   1-22  by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-23        (d)  A juvenile probation community service restitution
   1-24  program  shall provide information requested by the attorney
   1-25  general that the attorney general considers necessary for the
   1-26  defense under Section 104.004, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, of
   1-27  a person employed in the area of juvenile probation.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-33  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-34  passage, and it is so enacted.
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