H.B. No. 178




AN ACT

relating to immunity for certain governmental employees for an act 
or omission committed while supervising an inmate or offender 
program or activity.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Article 42.20(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(c)  This article applies to:                                                  
		(1)  a director or employee of a community supervision 
and corrections department or a community corrections facility;
		(2)  a sheriff or employee of a sheriff's department;                         
		(3)  a county judge, county attorney, county 
commissioner, or county employee;
		(4)  a district judge, district attorney, or criminal 
district attorney;
		(5) [(4)]  an officer or employee of a state agency; or
		(6) [(5)]  an officer or employee of a political 
subdivision other than a county.
	SECTION 2.  Section 8(g), Article 42.03, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, as redesignated and amended by Section 1, Chapter 201, 
Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is repealed.
	SECTION 3.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                      
	(b)  The change in the law made by this Act applies only to 
immunity from liability for an act or omission committed on or after 
the effective date of this Act.  An act or omission committed before 
the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect at the 
time the act or omission was committed, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 178 was passed by the House on March 
28, 2003, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 178 was passed by the Senate on May 
20, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor