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.