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         By:  Armbrister                              S.B. No. 1275

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to safety consultations.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Amend Section 411.003, Texas Labor Code, to read

 1-4     as follows:

 1-5           Sec. 411.003.  Immunity from Certain Liability.

 1-6           (a)  An insurance company, the agent, servant, or employee of

 1-7     the insurance company, or a safety consultant who performs a safety

 1-8     consultation under Subchapter D or E  has no liability for an

 1-9     accident, injury or occupational disease based on an allegation

1-10     that the accident, injury or occupational disease was caused or

1-11     could have been prevented by a program, inspection, or other

1-12     activity or service undertaken by the insurance company for the

1-13     prevention of accidents in connection with operations of the

1-14     employer.

1-15           (b)  The immunity provided by Subsection (a) does not affect

1-16     the liability of an insurance carrier for compensation or as

1-17     otherwise provided in this subtitle.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This legislation shall take effect September 1,

1-19     1997, and shall affect and apply to any cause of action then

1-20     pending or thereafter filed.

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.