Amend CSSB 1717 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 6 of the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the ARTICLE accordingly:

SECTION 6.____.  (a)  Section 74.141, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 74.141.  DEFENSE OF JUDGES. The attorney general shall defend a state district judge, a presiding judge of an administrative region, the presiding judge of the statutory probate courts, or an active, retired, or former judge assigned under this chapter in any action or suit in any court in which the judge is a defendant because of his office as judge if the judge requests the attorney general's assistance in the defense of the suit.

(b)  Section 74.141, Government Code, as amended by this Act, applies to a cause of action filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A cause of action filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.