By Corte H.B. No. 3405
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to Automobile Liability Insurance for Peace Officers In
1-3 County of More Than 1.4 Million.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 157.042(a), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A county with a population of more than [1.4] 1 (one)
1-8 million shall insure its sheriff, constable and full-time deputies
1-9 of those officers against liability to third persons arising from
1-10 the operation or maintenance of county owned or county lease motor
1-11 vehicles or personally/privately owned motor vehicles used for the
1-12 performance of county business or law enforcement duties.
1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both house create an
1-15 imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring
1-16 bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended,
1-17 and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect
1-18 and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.