By Maxey                                              H.B. No. 1888
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to clarifying the judicial immunity applicable to a person
 1-3     who is appointed by a court to serve as trustee of a convalescent
 1-4     or nursing home.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 242.094, Health and Safety Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
 1-8           (f)  There is no liability on the part of, and a cause of
 1-9     action does not arise against, a trustee appointed under this
1-10     section for the trustee's good faith action or failure to act if
1-11     the good faith action or failure to act is performed or not
1-12     performed within the course and scope of the authority either given
1-13     to the trustee by the appointing court or approved by the
1-14     appointing court. The trustee has judicial immunity under this
1-15     subsection.
1-16           SECTION 2.  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,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.