1-1     By:  McReynolds (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)             H.B. No. 1080
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2001;
 1-3     May 7, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Business
 1-4     and Commerce; May 11, 2001, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to insurance requirements to limit the liability of an
 1-9     owner, lessee, or occupant of agricultural land for damages arising
1-10     from a certified prescribed burn on that land.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1. Section 153.082, Natural Resources Code, is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 153.082. INSURANCE. The limitation on liability under
1-15     Section 153.081 does not apply to an owner, lessee, or occupant of
1-16     agricultural land unless the certified prescribed burn manager
1-17     conducting a burn on the land has liability insurance coverage:
1-18                 (1)  of at least $1 million for each single occurrence
1-19     of bodily injury or death, or injury to or destruction of property;
1-20     and
1-21                 (2)  with a policy period minimum aggregate limit of at
1-22     least $2 million.
1-23           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-24     applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after that
1-25     date.  An action that accrued before the effective date of this Act
1-26     is governed by the law applicable to the action immediately before
1-27     the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
1-28     for that purpose.
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