By Corte                                        H.B. No. 1816

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to assignment of claims by public employees.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Civil Practice and Remedies Code, Chapter 102 is

 1-5     amended by adding the following:

 1-6           Chapter 102.007.  PROHIBITION OF ASSIGNMENT OF CLAIM BY

 1-7     PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.  (a)  A public employee is prohibited from

 1-8     entering into a covenant not to execute or an assignment of claim

 1-9     against their local government employer.  Any such agreement is

1-10     hereby declared void as against the public policy of this state.

1-11           (b)  The prohibition in (a) only applies to a local

1-12     government that is self-insured or who indemnifies their employees.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.