By Rabuck H.B. No. 1220 75R3517 SMH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the immunity from liability of the Texas Forest Service 1-3 and its employees for damage, injury, or death caused by controlled 1-4 burning planned, conducted, or supervised by the service. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 88, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 88.121 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 88.121. IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY. (a) The Texas Forest 1-9 Service and an employee of the service who plans, conducts, or 1-10 supervises controlled burning in the course and scope of the 1-11 person's employment are immune from liability for any property 1-12 damage, personal injury, or death proximately caused by the burning 1-13 unless the damage, injury, or death is caused by the employee's 1-14 negligence. 1-15 (b) In this section, "controlled burning" has the meaning 1-16 assigned that term by Section 28.01, Penal Code. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.