By Bosse                                              H.B. No. 2151
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to immunity from liability of a member of the board of
 1-3     directors of a public facility corporation.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 3.028, Public Facility Corporation Act
 1-6     (Article 717s, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding
 1-7     Subsection (g) to read as follows:
 1-8           (g)  A member of a corporation's board of directors is
 1-9     granted the same immunity from liability as is granted under the
1-10     laws of this state to a member of the governing body of the sponsor
1-11     of the corporation if the director was acting in good faith and in
1-12     the course and scope of the duties or functions within the
1-13     corporation.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-15     applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
1-16     date.  A cause of action that accrues before the effective date of
1-17     this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before
1-18     the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
1-19     for that purpose.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.