By Bosse                                              H.B. No. 2517
       74R8009 T
                                 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 a new Section 3C to
    1-8  read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 3C.  "No persons may require indemnification from a
   1-10  motor carrier as a condition to (a) such carrier transporting
   1-11  property for compensation or hire; or (b) entering upon any
   1-12  property for the purpose of loading, unloading or transporting
   1-13  property for compensation or hire other than as relates to claims,
   1-14  demands, losses, damages and liability resulting from the wrongful
   1-15  or 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.