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Thursday, February 22, 1973
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AUSTIN UP)—The House ten
tatively approved a bill Wednes
day that would allow accident
victims to collect money damages
in court even though they were
found negligent.
Sponsored by Rep. Jim Nugent,
D.-Kerrville, the bill advanced on
a 130-7 vote and is scheduled for
final passage Thursday. Senate
action also would be required.
A similar bill passed the legis
lature in 1971 but was vetoed by
former Gov. Preston Smith, who
said it would cause auto liability
rates to increase since insurance
companies would be paying claims
that they do not have to honor
under present law.
The Texas Trial Lawyers As
sociation, whose members repre
sent plaintiffs in accident cases,
has pushed for the measure for
several years.
Earlier, the House tentatively
approved a bill requiring periodic
reports of donations and expendi
tures in races for House Speaker.
An extended debate on Nugent’s
bill was expected but failed to
materialize.
Rep. Ben Bynum, D.-Amarillo,
chairman of the House Insurance
Committee, tried to knock out a
provision to repeal the current
law that prohibits a voluntary
passenger in a car from suing
the driver if the “guest” is hurt
in an accident.
“This will substantially in
crease the cost of liability insur
ance,” Bynum said of the provi
sion. “In those states where the
great statute was repealed, with
one exception, insurance rates
went up.”
His amendment was tabled,
112-31.
Present Texas law, which ap
plies a “contributory negligence”
rule, says an injured driver can
not recover money damages in
court if the jury finds he helped
cause the accident.
Nugent’s bill would replace
this with a “comparative negli
gence doctrine.” Juries would
have to decide the percentage by
which each driver contributed to
a collision. If the plaintiff was
found, say, 20 per cent to blame,
he would recover 80 per cent of
his damages, as determined by
the jury. Under present law he
W9uld receive nothing.
The bill regulating campaign
finances in speaker races ad
vanced on second reading by a
129-4 vote, with 10 members
recorded only as “present.”
Under present law, candidates
for speaker are not required to
submit reports of their spending
and contributions. Former Secre
tary of State Bob Bullock im
posed such a requirement last
year after Speaker Price Daniel
Jr., then a candidate, voluntarily
began reporting his campaign
finances.
Speakers are elected by their
fellow House members, but candi
dates generally spend consider
able money traveling and com
municating with other represen
tatives whose votes they seek.
House Agriculture Committee
To Visit A&M On Thursday
Geophysics Researchers To Study
Mountain And Sediment Basins
Researchers in the Geophysics
Department will take a look at
how mountains and sediment bas
ins are formed in a project en
titled “Subsidence and Uplift of
the Earth’s Surface Induced by
Solid-Solid Phase Transition.”
The project, funded with a
$16,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation, is headed by
Dr. Anthony F. Gangi. He and
his assistants will seek to find,
through calculations, just how
much uplift or subsidence occurs
in the earth’s surface.
“It is known,” Dr. Gangi said,
“that there are sea shells in the
Alps. These shells were, at one
time, hundreds of feet below the
ocean, but now they are as high
as 10,000 feet above sea level.
This rise in the earth’s surface
had to be brought about by some
means, and we will try to find
out just what caused it.”
Geologists feel that the earth’s
crust is actually “floating” on a
sea of plastic mantle. Changes
in the density of the mantle ma
terial, brought about by either
changes in pressure on the sur
face or by heat variations in the
mantle itself, are believed to be
the cause of altitude change in
the surface.
“One method of pressure
change on the surface,” Dr. Gan
gi said, “is by erosion. When a
mountain erodes away, the space
once occupied by the mountain
becomes much lighter, hence a
change in pressure on the mantle
below. When the pressure on the
mantle increases or decreases,
the crust of the earth rises or
falls accordingly.”
The project, according to Dr.
Gangi, will try to obtain more
definite information about the
density changes in the earth’s
mantle and how the changes af
fect the geological structures of
the crust. The project is funded
through July 31, 1974.
The Texas Legislature’s 23-
member House Agriculture and
Livestock Committee will be here
Thursday to observe research,
Extension and teaching activities
and facilities.
The group also will spend Fri
day touring facilities of the A&M
Agricultural Research and Ex
tension Center at Overton.
Joe Hubenak of Rosenberg,
District 20 representative, heads
the committee. Vice chairman is
E. L. Short of Tahoka, District
73 representative.
Joe Rothe, assistant director
and state agent of the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service,
in charge of planning for the
visit, said the committee is sched
uled to arrive at noon at Easter-
wood Airport. It will be met by
A&M officials.
Committee members will tour
such facilities as the Entomology
Research Laboratory, where they
will see integrated insect control
studies, and toxicology and fire
ant work.
Other stops will be the Vet
erinary Diagnostic Laboratory,
College of Veterinary Medicine,
Cereal Quality Laboratory, Plant
Sciences Field Laboratory, Ani
mal Science Meats Research Lab
oratory and Market Research and
Development Center.
Rothe said the representatives
will be honored that evening at
a 6:30 dinner in the Ramada Inn.
A&M officials on hand will be
President Jack Williams; Dr. H.
O. Kunkel, dean of the College of
Agriculture; Dr. Jarvis Miller,
director, Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station; and Dr. John
E. Hutchison, director, Texas
Agricultural Extension Service.
The committee will leave East-
erwood Airport at 8:15 a.m. Fri
day to inspect the Overton cen
ter. Hutchison and Miller are in
charge of the program there.
Rep. Joe Allen, D.-Baytown,
the sponsor, said both House
members and the people of Texas
“have a right to know—and de
serve to know — the sources,
amounts and expenditures of all
candidates for this office.”
“The passage of this legisla
tion is important so that we and
the public can have another meas
uring rod in our judgment about
those who seek one of the most
important offices in state govern
ment,” Allen said.
Daniel included the bill in his
nine-measure “reform” program.
Fifteen floor amendments and
eight committee amendments,
most of them accepted by Allen,
were added to the bill. Several
reduced penalties for violating
the bill’s requirements from
prison terms to fines and jail
sentences, making violations felo
nies instead of misdemeanors.
One amendment would prohibit
members of the executive or judi
cial branches from contributing
money or services to speaker can
didates. The amendment was ap-
proved on voice vote after a
motion to table it failed, 62-J5,
There have been allegations
that Daniel’s father, Associate
Justice Price Daniel of the Texas
Supreme Court, made telephone
calls on behalf of his son’s candi
dacy.
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