By: Madla S.B. No. 1180 97S0778/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the liability status of police officers and 1-2 firefighters when they are performing their duties. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 143, Local Government Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 143.314 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 143.314. LIABILITY STATUS OF FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE 1-7 OFFICERS. For purposes of liability, a firefighter or police 1-8 officer is considered to be a business invitee when the firefighter 1-9 or police officer is performing the firefighter's or police 1-10 officer's duties. 1-11 SECTION 2. Firefighters or police officers are to be 1-12 considered invitees for subrogation purposes when municipalities 1-13 seek subrogation for any money that the municipalities have 1-14 expended on behalf of the firefighters or police officers. 1-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-16 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.