Bill Text: TX HR2277 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Resolution 2277 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 321.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-23 - Filed [HR2277 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HR2277-Introduced.html

	82R29831 JSC-D

	By: Kleinschmidt	H.R. No. 2277


	R E S O L U T I O N

	BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
	Texas, 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, That House Rule 13,
	Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13,
	Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to
	resolve the differences on Senate Bill 321 (employee's
	transportation and storage of certain firearms or ammunition while
	on certain property owned or controlled by the employee's employer)
	to consider and take action on the following matter:
	House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(1), is suspended to permit the
	committee to change text not in disagreement in proposed SECTION 1
	of the bill, in added Section 52.063, Labor Code, to read as
	follows:
	Sec. 52.063. IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY. (a) Except in
	cases of gross negligence, a public or private employer, or the
	employer's principal, officer, director, employee, or agent, is not
	liable in a civil action for personal injury, death, property
	damage, or any other damages resulting from or arising out of an
	occurrence involving a firearm or ammunition that the employer is
	required to allow on the employer's property under this subchapter.
	(b) The presence of a firearm or ammunition on an employer's
	property under the authority of this subchapter does not by itself
	constitute a failure by the employer to provide a safe workplace.
	(c) For purposes of this section, a public or private
	employer, or the employer's principal, officer, director,
	employee, or agent, does not have a duty:
	(1) to patrol, inspect, or secure:
	(A) any parking lot, parking garage, or other
	parking area the employer provides for employees; or
	(B) any privately owned motor vehicle located in
	a parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area described by
	Paragraph (A); or
	(2) to investigate, confirm, or determine an
	employee's compliance with laws related to the ownership or
	possession of a firearm or ammunition or the transportation and
	storage of a firearm or ammunition.
	Explanation: This change is necessary to clarify the
	responsibilities of an employer required by this Act to permit
	certain firearms and ammunition on the employer's property.