1-1     By:  Harris, Ellis                                     S.B. No. 753

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 1997; February 27, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;

 1-4     April 15, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 15, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 753                   By:  Harris

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the liability of the operator of a railroad.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Chapter 10, Title 112, Revised Statutes, is

1-13     amended by adding Article 6432A to read as follows:

1-14           Art. 6432A.  APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.  Notwithstanding any

1-15     other law, this chapter applies to any person, receiver, or

1-16     corporation except for the portion of the operations of the person,

1-17     receiver, or corporation that:

1-18                 (1)  consists solely of the fabrication, manufacture,

1-19     repair, or storage of rail rolling stock; or

1-20                 (2)  uses rail cars solely as a part of its own

1-21     internal manufacturing or production process.

1-22           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only

1-23     to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of

1-24     this Act.  A cause of action that accrued before the effective date

1-25     of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the cause

1-26     of action accrued, and the former law is continued in effect for

1-27     that purpose.

1-28           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.

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