By Ellis                                              S.B. No. 1034
         76R6209 JMC-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of a court of appeals to purchase or
 1-3     acquire liability insurance.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 612.004(f)(2), Government Code, as added
 1-6     by Chapter 1035, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
 1-7     1997, is amended to read as follows:
 1-8                 (2)  "State agency" means:
 1-9                       (A)  a department, board, commission, committee,
1-10     council, agency, office, or other entity in the executive,
1-11     legislative, or judicial branch of state government, the
1-12     jurisdiction of which is not limited to a geographical portion of
1-13     the state;
1-14                       (B)  [.  The term includes] an institution of
1-15     higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code; and
1-16                       (C)  a court of appeals.
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.