Amend CSHB 2066 as follows:
      (1) On page 190, between lines 18 and 19, insert the
following:
      ARTICLE 8.  AMENDMENTS TO TEXAS NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ACT
      SECTION 8.001.  Article 1396-2.31, Texas Non-Profit
Corporation Act is amended by designating the existing language as
Section A and by inserting a new Section B to read as follows:
      B. Any corporation (or person or entity assisting such
corporation) described in this article shall have immunity from
suit (including both a defense to liability and the right not to
bear the cost, burden, and risk of discovery and trial) as to any
claim alleging that the  corporation's role as trustee of a trust
described in this article constitutes engaging in the trust
business in a matter requiring a state charter in this state.  An
interlocutory appeal may be taken if a court denies or otherwise
fails to grant a motion for summary judgment that is based on an
assertion of the immunity provided in this subsection.
      SECTION 8.002. (a) Article 1396-2.31, Texas Non-Profit
Corporation Act, as that section exists on the effective date of
this Act, applies to any trust created before, on, or after the
effective date of this Act, including any trust that is the subject
of litigation or another proceeding that is pending before, on, or
after the effective date of this Act.
      (b) This section applies without regard to the effective date
of the legislation enacting Article 1396-2.31, Texas Non-Profit
Corporation Act or any other legislation enacted by any legislature
that amended the provisions of Article 1396-2.31, Texas Non-Profit
Corporation Act.
      SECTION 8.003. This Act applies to any trust created before,
on, or after the effective date of this Act, including any trust
that is the subject of litigation or another proceeding that is
pending before, on, or after the effective date of this article.
      (2) Renumber existing Article 8 of the bill as Article 9 and
strike page 191, lines 24 through page 192, line 3, and substitute
the following:
      SECTION 9.003. EFFECTIVE DATE.  (a) Except as provided by
Subsection (b), this Act takes effect immediately.
      (b) Articles 1-7 of this Act take effect September 1, 1999.
      SECTION 9.004. The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
terms, and it is so enacted.