By Jackson S.B. No. 1893 76R6792 DB-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to juvenile board members and juvenile probation personnel 1-3 in Galveston County. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 152, Human Resources Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 152.0904 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 152.0904. LIABILITY; INDEMNIFICATION AND DEFENSE BY 1-8 STATE. (a) A member of the juvenile board of Galveston County is 1-9 a member of a governing board of a state agency for purposes of: 1-10 (1) Chapter 104, Civil Practice and Remedies Code; 1-11 (2) a complaint or civil action brought in accordance 1-12 with Chapter 21, Labor Code; or 1-13 (3) a complaint or civil action filed to enforce a 1-14 right guaranteed by the United States Constitution or federal law. 1-15 (b) An employee of the juvenile board of Galveston County is 1-16 a state employee for purposes of: 1-17 (1) a complaint or civil action brought in accordance 1-18 with Chapter 21, Labor Code; or 1-19 (2) a complaint or civil action filed to enforce a 1-20 right guaranteed by the United States Constitution or federal law. 1-21 SECTION 2. (a) Section 152.0904, Human Resources Code, as 1-22 added by this Act applies only to: 1-23 (1) a complaint relating to conduct that occurs on or 1-24 after the effective date of this Act; or 2-1 (2) a civil action that accrues on or after the 2-2 effective date of this Act. 2-3 (b) A complaint relating to conduct that occurs before the 2-4 effective date of this Act and a civil action that accrues before 2-5 the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed 2-6 immediately before the effective date of this Act and that law is 2-7 continued in effect for this purpose. 2-8 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.