Bill Text: TX HB1267 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain counties and intergovernmental pools to require reimbursement for punitive damage coverage.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-20 - No action taken in committee [HB1267 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1267-Introduced.html
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| By: Smithee | H.B. No. 1267 | |
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| relating to the authority of certain counties and intergovernmental | ||
| pools to require reimbursement for punitive damage coverage. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 157, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 157.9031 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 157.9031. AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT FOR | ||
| CERTAIN COVERAGE. A self-insuring county or the intergovernmental | ||
| pool operating under Chapter 119, under policies concerning the | ||
| provision of coverages adopted by the county's commissioners court | ||
| or the pool's governing body, may require reimbursement for the | ||
| provision of punitive damage coverage from a person to whom the | ||
| county or intergovernmental pool provides coverage. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2011. | ||
