By Counts, et al.                                     H.B. No. 2421

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to limiting the liability of the State Commission on

 1-3     Judicial Conduct.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 33.035 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 33.035.  IMMUNITY.  (a)  A public member of the

 1-8     commission is not liable for any damages for an act or omission in

 1-9     the course of the official duties of the commission.

1-10           (b)  Subsection (a) shall not limit the liability of a public

1-11     member of the commission for any act or omission in bad faith or

1-12     involving gross negligence, intentional misconduct, or a knowing

1-13     violation of the law.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.