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.
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