By McReynolds                                         H.B. No. 1080
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to insurance requirements to limit the liability of an
 1-3     owner, lessee, or occupant of agricultural land for damages arising
 1-4     from a certified prescribed burn on that land.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1. Section 153.082, Natural Resources Code, is
 1-7     amended to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 153.082. INSURANCE. The limitation on liability under
 1-9     Section 153.081 does not apply to an owner, lessee, or occupant of
1-10     agricultural land unless the certified prescribed burn manager
1-11     conducting a burn on the land has liability insurance coverage:
1-12                 (1)  of at least $1 million for each single occurrence
1-13     of bodily injury or death, or injury to or destruction of property;
1-14     and
1-15                 (2)  with a policy period minimum aggregate limit of at
1-16     least $2 million.
1-17           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-18     applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
1-19     date.  An action that accrued before the effective date of this Act
1-20     is governed by the law applicable to the action immediately before
1-21     the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
1-22     for that purpose.