SRC-JBJ S.B. 1214 76(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1214
76R7077 SMJ-FBy: Whitmire
Technology & Business Growth
4/21/1999
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, a public facility corporation has the power to finance or to
provide for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, renovation,
equipping, furnishing, and placement in service of public facilities and is
allowed to issue bonds on behalf of its sponsor.  The sponsor may be a
city, county, school district, housing authority, or special district that
causes a public facility corporation to be created.  However, members of
the boards of directors of public facility corporations lack the same legal
immunities as their sponsors.  S.B. 1214 would give a member of a board of
directors of a public facility corporation the same immunity from liability
that is granted to a member of the governing body of the corporation's
sponsor. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 1214 assigns a public facilities corporation certain
immunity and liability. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 4.041, Article 717s, V.T.C.S. (Public Facility
Corporation Act), by adding Subsection (d), to provide that a corporation
has the same immunity and may be held liable in the same manner as the
corporation's sponsor.  Provides that an officer, employee, or director of
a corporation has the same immunity and may be held liable in the same
manner as an officer, employee, or member of the governing body of the
corporation's sponsor. 

SECTION 2.Makes application of this Act prospective.

SECTION 3.Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.