1-1     By:  Bosse (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                   H.B. No. 2853
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Economic Development; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the provision of insurance for mutual indemnity
 1-9     obligations in certain mineral agreements.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 127.005(b), Civil Practice and Remedies
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  With respect to a mutual indemnity obligation, the
1-14     indemnity obligation is limited to the extent of the coverage and
1-15     dollar limits of insurance or qualified self-insurance each party
1-16     as indemnitor has agreed to obtain for the benefit of [provide in
1-17     equal amounts to] the other party as indemnitee.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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