By Whitmire S.B. No. 1214 76R7077 SMJ-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the immunity and liability of a public facilities 1-3 corporation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4.041, Public Facility Corporation Act 1-6 (Article 717s, Revised Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection 1-7 (d) to read as follows: 1-8 (d) A corporation has the same immunity and may be held 1-9 liable in the same manner as the corporation's sponsor. An 1-10 officer, employee, or director of a corporation has the same 1-11 immunity and may be held liable in the same manner as an officer, 1-12 employee, or member of the governing body of the corporation's 1-13 sponsor. 1-14 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-15 to an act of a corporation created under the Public Facility 1-16 Corporation Act (Article 717s, Revised Statutes), or an act of a 1-17 director, officer, or employee of the corporation, that begins on 1-18 or after the effective date of this Act. An act of a corporation 1-19 created under the Public Facility Corporation Act or an act of a 1-20 director, officer, or employee of the corporation that begins 1-21 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 1-22 effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that 1-23 law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.