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.

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