By Longoria H.B. No. 2149
75R7815 DLF-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the liability of volunteer fire departments.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 101.023(d), Civil Practice and Remedies
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (d) Except as provided by Section 78.001, liability of a
1-7 volunteer fire department under this chapter is limited to money
1-8 damages in a maximum amount of $100,000 [for each person and
1-9 $300,000] for each single occurrence for bodily injury, [or] death,
1-10 or [and $100,000 for each single occurrence for] injury to or
1-11 destruction of property.
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a cause of action that
1-13 accrues on or after the effective date of this Act. A cause of
1-14 action that accrues before the effective date of this Act is
1-15 governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective
1-16 date of this Act and that law is continued in effect for that
1-17 purpose.
1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-19 SECTION 4. 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.