By:  Staples                                                      S.B. No. 194
	(In the Senate - Filed January 14, 2003; January 30, 2003, 
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 
April 2, 2003, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 
Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 2, 2003, 
sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 194                                    By:  Staples


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to immunity for certain governmental employees or agents 
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.  Subsection (c), Article 42.20, 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 commissioner, or county 
employee;               
		(4)  an officer or employee of a state agency; [or]          
		(5)  an officer or employee of a political subdivision 
other than a county; or
		(6)  a member of a community justice council 
established under Section 76.003(b), Government Code, who is not 
otherwise listed in this subsection.
	SECTION 2.  Subsection (g), Section 8, 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is repealed.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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