By Ellis                                               S.B. No. 241
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to limiting the liability of the State Commission on
 1-3     Judicial Conduct.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 33.035 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 33.035.  IMMUNITY.  The commission, any member of the
 1-8     commission, the executive director of the commission, any employee
 1-9     of the commission, or any special master or special counsel
1-10     assisting the commission is not liable for any damages for an act
1-11     or omission in the course of the official duties of the commission.
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.