By Armbrister S.B. No. 740 76R7135 DLF-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to liability for damages resulting from contact with a 1-3 high voltage overhead line. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 752.008, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 752.008. LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES. (a) If a violation of 1-8 this chapter results in physical or electrical contact with a high 1-9 voltage overhead line, the person, firm, corporation, or 1-10 association that committed the violation is liable to the owner or 1-11 operator of the line for all damages to the facilities and for all 1-12 liability that the owner or operator incurs as a result of the 1-13 contact. 1-14 (b) This section does not affect the immunity from suit or 1-15 liability of the state or a political subdivision of the state, and 1-16 an owner or operator of a high voltage overhead line may not 1-17 recover damages under this section from the state or any political 1-18 subdivision of the state. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.