By Montford                                           S.B. No. 1579
       74R7344 DAK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the liability of private persons who contract for the
    1-3  transportation of public school children.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.181, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
    1-7        (g)  The liability of a commercial transportation company or
    1-8  system for damages arising from the negligence of the company or
    1-9  system or an employee of the company or system in the
   1-10  transportation of a person under the contract is limited to a
   1-11  maximum amount of $100,000 for each person and $1,000,000 for each
   1-12  single occurrence for bodily injury or death.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-14  applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
   1-15  date.  An action that accrued before the effective date of this Act
   1-16  is governed by the law applicable to the action immediately before
   1-17  the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
   1-18  for that purpose.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.