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.