By: Ellis S.B. No. 1034
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.