Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By: Harris S.B. No. 753 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the liability of the operator of a railroad. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Article 6432, Revised Statutes, is amended to 1-4 read as follows: 1-5 Art. 6432. Injury to fellow servant. (a) Every person, 1-6 receiver, or corporation operating a railroad or street railway, 1-7 the line of which shall be situated in whole or in part in this 1-8 State, shall be liable for all damages sustained by any servant or 1-9 employee thereof while engaged in the work of operating the cars, 1-10 locomotives or trains of such person, receiver, or corporation, by 1-11 reason of the negligence of any other servant or employee of such 1-12 person, receiver, or corporation, and the fact that such servants 1-13 or employees were fellow-servants with each other shall not impair 1-14 or destroy such liability. 1-15 (b) Subsection (a) of this article does not apply to that 1-16 part of the operation of a person, receiver, or corporation: 1-17 (1) that consists solely of the fabrication, 1-18 manufacture, repair, or storage of rail rolling stock; or 1-19 (2) that uses rail cars only as a part of its internal 1-20 manufacturing or production process. 1-21 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-22 to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of 1-23 this Act. A cause or action that accrued before the effective date 2-1 of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the cause 2-2 of action accrued, and the former law is continued in effect for 2-3 that purpose. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.