By Swinford H.B. No. 3624 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the definition of "Employee" for purposes of Chapter 1-3 102, Civil Practice and Remedies Code. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 102.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code 1-6 is amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 102.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: 1-8 (1) "Employee" includes and officer, volunteer, or 1-9 employee, a former officer, volunteer, or employee, and the estate 1-10 of an employee of a local government. The term does not include a 1-11 county extension agent. 1-12 (2) "Local government" means a county, city, town, 1-13 special purpose district, and any other political subdivision of 1-14 the state. 1-15 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-16 and the crowded conditions of the calendars in both houses create 1-17 an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.