By Bosse                                              H.B. No. 2517
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to contractual indemnification provisions in motor carrier
    1-3  contracts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 42, General Laws, Acts of the 41st
    1-6  Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6701d-11, Vernon's
    1-7  Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 3C to read as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9        Sec. 3C.  No persons may require indemnification from a motor
   1-10  carrier as a condition to (a) such carrier transporting property
   1-11  for compensation or hire; or (b) entering upon any property for the
   1-12  purpose of loading, unloading, or transporting property for
   1-13  compensation or hire other than as relates to claims, demands,
   1-14  losses, damages, and liability resulting from the wrongful or
   1-15  negligent act or omission on the part of the motor carriers.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.