AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the authority of a court of appeals to purchase or
 1-2     acquire liability insurance.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (2), Subsection (f), Section 612.004,
 1-5     Government Code, as added by Chapter 1035, Acts of the 75th
 1-6     Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (2)  "State agency" means:
 1-8                       (A)  a department, board, commission, committee,
 1-9     council, agency, office, or other entity in the executive,
1-10     legislative, or judicial branch of state government, the
1-11     jurisdiction of which is not limited to a geographical portion of
1-12     the state;
1-13                       (B)  [.  The term includes] an institution of
1-14     higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code; and
1-15                       (C)  a court of appeals as described by Section
1-16     22.201.
1-17           SECTION 2.  Section 612.004, Government Code, as added by
1-18     Chapter 1035, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997,
1-19     is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-20           (g)  For purposes of Section 659.012, the cost of insurance
1-21     purchased or acquired by a court of appeals under this section is
1-22     not included in determining the salary of a justice serving on the
1-23     court.
1-24           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-1           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1034 passed the Senate on
         April 8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1034 passed the House on
         May 25, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor