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Amend SB 1613 (house committee printing) by striking all
below the enacting clause and substituting the following:
SECTION 1. Section 102.001, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 102.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Employee" includes an officer, volunteer, or
employee, a former officer, volunteer, or employee, and the estate
of an officer, volunteer, or employee or former officer,
volunteer, or employee of a local government. The term includes a
member of a governing board. The term does not include a county
extension agent.
(2) "Local government" means a county, city, town,
special purpose district, including a soil and water conservation
district, and any other political subdivision of the state.
SECTION 2. The amendment by this Act of Section 102.001,
Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is intended to clarify rather
than change the existing law.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.