1-1  By:  Averitt (Senate Sponsor - Cain)                  H.B. No. 2501
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
    1-3  May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
    1-4  Development; May 18, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 18, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to insurance requirements for certain persons who engage
    1-9  in a business regarding fire alarms or fire detection devices.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 5B, Article 5.43-2, Insurance Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-13        (g)  This section does not affect the rights of the insured
   1-14  to negotiate or contract for limitations of liability with a third
   1-15  party, including a customer of the insured.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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