Bill Text: TX SB694 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Bill 694 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to liability of a religious organization or an employee or volunteer of a religious organization for security services provided to the organization.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB694 Detail]

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	By: Hughes, Creighton	S.B. No. 694


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to liability of a religious organization or an employee or
	volunteer of a religious organization for security services
	provided to the organization.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 84, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is
	amended by adding Section 84.0067 to read as follows:
	Sec. 84.0067. LIABILITY ARISING FROM PROVISION OF SECURITY
	SERVICES TO RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION. (a) In this section:
	(1) "Religious organization" means a charitable
	organization that is a religious organization under Section
	110.011(b).
	(2) "Security personnel" means an individual:
	(A) whom a religious organization hires to
	provide security services to the organization as an employee; or
	(B) who is a volunteer of a religious
	organization whose duties or functions include providing security
	services to the organization.
	(b) A religious organization or security personnel of a
	religious organization is immune from civil liability for any act
	or omission by the security personnel resulting in death, damage,
	or injury if the security personnel was acting in the course and
	scope of the security personnel's employment or volunteer duties or
	functions, as applicable, to provide security services to the
	organization, including:
	(1) notwithstanding Section 84.007(a), an intentional
	act; and
	(2) an act involving possession or use of a firearm.
	SECTION 2. Section 84.0067, Civil Practice and Remedies
	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, 2023.