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.