By Bosse                                              H.B. No. 2151
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                                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
1-11     sponsor of the corporation.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-13     applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
1-14     date.  A cause of action that accrues before the effective date of
1-15     this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before
1-16     the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
1-17     for that purpose.
1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-23                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-24           Amend H.B. 2151, SECTION 1, by striking new Subsection (g) of
 2-1     Section 3.028, and replacing it with a new (g) to read as follows:
 2-2           (g)  A member of a corporation's board of directors is
 2-3     granted the same immunity from liability as is granted under the
 2-4     laws of this state to a member of the governing body of the sponsor
 2-5     of the corporation if the director was acting in good faith and in
 2-6     the course and scope of the duties or functions within the
 2-7     corporation.
 2-8                                                                   Bosse