87R278 SCL-D
 
  By: Toth H.B. No. 3589
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to civil liability of a local entity or institution of
  higher education official directing certain immigration law
  violations.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 752, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 752.0563 to read as follows:
         Sec. 752.0563.  CIVIL LIABILITY FOR OFFICIALS. (a) An
  individual who holds an elective or appointive office of a local
  entity or institution of higher education and who directs the
  entity or the institution's campus police department to violate
  Section 752.053 is liable in the official's personal capacity to a
  person for the person's damages that were incurred as a result of
  the violation.
         (b)  An official of a local entity or institution of higher
  education may not assert official immunity or other forms of
  immunity as a defense in an action described by Subsection (a).
         SECTION 2.  Section 752.0563, Government Code, as added by
  this Act, applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after
  the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.