1-1 By: Bosse (Senate Sponsor - Sibley) H.B. No. 2517 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995; 1-3 May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic 1-4 Development; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to contractual indemnification provisions in motor carrier 1-9 contracts. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Chapter 42, General Laws, Acts of the 41st 1-12 Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6701d-11, Vernon's 1-13 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 3C to read as 1-14 follows: 1-15 Sec. 3C. No persons may require indemnification from a motor 1-16 carrier as a condition to (a) such carrier transporting property 1-17 for compensation or hire; or (b) entering upon any property for the 1-18 purpose of loading, unloading, or transporting property for 1-19 compensation or hire other than as relates to claims, demands, 1-20 losses, damages, and liability resulting from the wrongful or 1-21 negligent act or omission on the part of the motor carriers. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-27 * * * * *