1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 135 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed December 16, 1996; January 14, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 January 22, 1997, rereferred to Committee on Education; 1-5 March 3, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-6 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 3, 1997, 1-7 sent to printer.) 1-8 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 135 By: Bivins 1-9 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-10 AN ACT 1-11 relating to the immunity from liability of counties and juvenile 1-12 boards and their employees and volunteers in relation to certain 1-13 responsibilities. 1-14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-15 SECTION 1. Section 37.011, Education Code, is amended by 1-16 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-17 (j) In relation to the development and operation of a 1-18 juvenile justice alternative education program, a juvenile board 1-19 and a county and a commissioners court are immune from liability to 1-20 the same extent as a school district, and the juvenile board's or 1-21 county's professional employees and volunteers are immune from 1-22 liability to the same extent as a school district's professional 1-23 employees and volunteers. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a cause of action that 1-25 accrues on or after the effective date of this Act. An action that 1-26 accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by the 1-27 law as it existed immediately before that date, and that law is 1-28 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-35 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-36 * * * * *