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.