Bill Text: TX SR1177 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 321.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-27 - Reported enrolled [SR1177 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SR1177-Enrolled.html
| By: Hegar | S.R. No. 1177 | |
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| BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 82nd | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, That Senate Rule 12.03 be | ||
| suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 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: | ||
| Senate Rule 12.03(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 and immunity from civil liability of persons | ||
| under this Act. | ||
| _______________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on May 27, 2011, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| _______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
