S.B. No. 779
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to liability of a licensed installer or servicer of
    1-2  certain liquefied petroleum gas systems.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 113, Natural Resources Code, is amended
    1-5  by adding Subchapter J to read as follows:
    1-6              SUBCHAPTER J.  LIABILITY OF LICENSE HOLDER
    1-7        Sec. 113.301.  LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF LICENSED INSTALLER
    1-8  OR SERVICER.  A person is not liable for damages caused solely by a
    1-9  malfunction or improper operation of an LPG system that the person
   1-10  installed or serviced in a residential, commercial, or public
   1-11  building if:
   1-12              (1)  the person was licensed to perform the
   1-13  installation or service; and
   1-14              (2)  the installation or service was performed in
   1-15  compliance with the safety rules and standards adopted by the
   1-16  commission;
   1-17              (3)  the person has no control over the operation of
   1-18  the LPG system;
   1-19              (4)  the person was not negligent; and
   1-20              (5)  the person did not supply a defective product
   1-21  which was a producing cause of harm.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a cause of action for
   1-23  damages arising out of a malfunction or the improper operation of a
   1-24  liquefied petroleum gas system that occurs on or after the
    2-1  effective date of this Act.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.