By: Bailey H.B. No. 1154 73R4514 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to indemnification provisions in certain municipal 1-3 contracts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 252, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 252.004 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 252.004. INDEMNIFICATION PROVISIONS IN MUNICIPAL 1-8 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS. A construction contract to which a 1-9 municipality is a party may not contain a provision requiring a 1-10 contractor to indemnify the municipality for damages arising from 1-11 negligence of the municipality. A provision in violation of this 1-12 section is void. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a contract entered into 1-14 on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.