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.