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.