1-1     By:  Counts, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)          H.B. No. 2421

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997;

 1-3     May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 17, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to limiting the liability of the State Commission on

 1-9     Judicial Conduct.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Government Code, is

1-12     amended by adding Section 33.035 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 33.035.  IMMUNITY.  (a)  A public member of the

1-14     commission is not liable for any damages for an act or omission in

1-15     the course of the official duties of the commission.

1-16           (b)  Subsection (a) shall not limit the liability of a public

1-17     member of the commission for any act or omission in bad faith or

1-18     involving gross negligence, intentional misconduct, or a knowing

1-19     violation of the law.

1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.

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