74R8195 PB-D
          By Averitt                                            H.B. No. 2501
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to insurance requirements for certain persons who engage
    1-3  in a business regarding fire alarms or fire detection devices.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 5B, Article 5.43-2, Insurance Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
    1-7        (g)  This section does not affect the rights of the insured
    1-8  to negotiate or contract for limitations of liability with a third
    1-9  party, including a customer of the insured.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.