By Swinford                                           H.B. No. 3624
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                                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.