1-1     By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1184

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1997; March 17, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;

 1-4     April 9, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 9, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to limiting the liability of the State Commission on

 1-9     Judicial Conduct.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Government Code, is

1-12     amended by adding Section 33.035 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 33.035.  IMMUNITY.  The commission, any member of the

1-14     commission, the executive director of the commission, any employee

1-15     of the commission, or any special master or special counsel

1-16     assisting the commission is not liable for any damages for an act

1-17     or omission in the course of the official duties of the commission.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.

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