By Swinford                                           H.B. No. 3624
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the persons for whom local governments may pay tort
 1-3     claims.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 102.001(1), Civil Practice and Remedies
 1-6     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (1)  "Employee" includes an officer, volunteer, or
 1-8     employee, a former officer, volunteer, or employee, and the estate
 1-9     of an officer, volunteer, or employee or former officer, volunteer,
1-10     or employee of a local government.  The term does not include a
1-11     county extension agent.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.