The Texas legislature is getting at least one thing right this session! Texas lawmakers last week reviewed a bill that will provide expanded liability protection to businesses, schools, healthcare facilities and first responders against lawsuits arising from COVID-19-related claims of illness, discrimination, or wrongful termination. The bill, sponsored in the house as HB 3659, would allow defendants, absent proof of a defendants’ actual malice or reckless and intentional conduct, to obtain dismissal of certain lawsuits after proving the pandemic was a producing cause of the alleged injury. If passed, the bill as currently drafted could retroactively apply to lawsuits filed since Governor Abbott declared the pandemic a state disaster on March 13, 2020. The full Texas Senate approved S.B. 6, an identical bill, 29-1 on April 8.