1-1     By:  Swinford (Senate Sponsor - Ogden)                H.B. No. 3624
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 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 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the persons for whom local governments may pay tort
 1-9     claims.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 102.001(1), Civil Practice and Remedies
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13                 (1)  "Employee" includes an officer, volunteer, or
1-14     employee, a former officer, volunteer, or employee, and the estate
1-15     of an officer, volunteer, or employee or former officer, volunteer,
1-16     or employee of a local government.  The term does not include a
1-17     county extension agent.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.
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