1-1     By:  Bosse (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)                H.B. No. 2151
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
 1-4     Development; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to immunity from liability of a member of the board of
 1-9     directors of a public facility corporation.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 3.028, Public Facility Corporation Act
1-12     (Article 717s, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding
1-13     Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-14           (g)  A member of a corporation's board of directors is
1-15     granted the same immunity from liability as is granted under the
1-16     laws of this state to a member of the governing body of the sponsor
1-17     of the corporation if the director was acting in good faith and in
1-18     the course and scope of the duties or functions within the
1-19     corporation.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-21     applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
1-22     date.  A cause of action that accrues before the effective date of
1-23     this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before
1-24     the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
1-25     for that purpose.
1-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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