By George H.B. No. 2665 76R7922 JMM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the immunity from liability of employers who provide 1-3 certain information to a law enforcement agency. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Title 4, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Chapter 97 to read as follows: 1-7 CHAPTER 97. EMPLOYER IMMUNITY FOR INFORMATION PROVIDED TO LAW 1-8 ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES 1-9 Sec. 97.001. IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY. (a) An 1-10 employer who discloses information on request to a law enforcement 1-11 agency about a current or former employee of the employer is immune 1-12 from civil liability for that disclosure or any damages proximately 1-13 caused by that disclosure unless it is proven by a preponderance of 1-14 the evidence that the information disclosed was known by that 1-15 employer to be false at the time the disclosure was made. 1-16 (b) This section applies to a managerial employee or other 1-17 representative of the employer who is authorized to provide and who 1-18 provides information under this section in the same manner that it 1-19 applies to an employer. 1-20 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-21 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to a 1-22 cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of this 1-23 Act. A cause of action that accrues before the effective date of 1-24 this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the 2-1 disclosure was made, and the former law is continued in effect for 2-2 that purpose. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.