By: Bivins S.B. No. 135 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the immunity from liability of counties and juvenile 1-2 boards and their employees and volunteers in relation to certain 1-3 responsibilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.011, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-7 (j) In relation to the development and operation of a 1-8 juvenile justice alternative education program, a juvenile board 1-9 and a county and a commissioners court are immune from liability to 1-10 the same extent as a school district, and the juvenile board's or 1-11 county's professional employees and volunteers are immune from 1-12 liability to the same extent as a school district's professional 1-13 employees and volunteers. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a cause of action that 1-15 accrues on or after the effective date of this Act. An action that 1-16 accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by the 1-17 law as it existed immediately before that date, and that law is 1-18 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.