By:  Haggerty                                          H.B. No. 513
       73R1330 LGF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the application of the prohibition on illegal
    1-3  remuneration to preferred provider organizations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 161.091(g), Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (g)  This section shall not apply to licensed insurers,
    1-8  governmental entities, including intergovernmental risk pools
    1-9  established under Chapter 172, Local Government Code, and
   1-10  institutions as defined in the Texas State College and University
   1-11  Employees Uniform Insurance Benefits Act (Article 3.50-3, Vernon's
   1-12  Texas Insurance Code), group hospital service corporations,
   1-13  preferred provider organizations, or health maintenance
   1-14  organizations which reimburse, provide, offer to provide, or
   1-15  administer hospital, medical, dental, or other health-related
   1-16  benefits under a health benefits plan for which it is the payor.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.