By Uher                                                H.B. No. 723
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 723:
          By Blackwood                                       C.S.H.B. No. 723
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to amending the definition of "Employee" for purposes of
    1-3  college and university employee insurance benefits.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 3(a)(4)(A), Texas State College and
    1-6  University Employees Uniform Insurance Benefits Act (Article
    1-7  3.50-3, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code), is amended to read as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9                    (4)(A)  "Employee" means a member of the
   1-10  governing board of an institution or <shall mean> any person
   1-11  employed by a governing board of an institution:
   1-12                    (i)  who retires under the provisions cited in
   1-13  Subsection (a)(2) of this section;
   1-14                    (ii)  who receives his compensation for services
   1-15  rendered to an institution on a warrant or check issued pursuant to
   1-16  a payroll certified by an institution or by an elected or duly
   1-17  appointed officer of this state, and who is eligible for
   1-18  participation in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas;
   1-19                    (iii)  who receives his compensation for services
   1-20  rendered as provided in this subdivision but is not permitted to be
   1-21  a member of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas because he is
   1-22  solely employed by an institution of higher education that as a
   1-23  condition of employment requires the employee to be enrolled as a
   1-24  student in the institution in graduate-level courses and who is
    2-1  employed at least 20 hours a week.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
    2-3  applies only to a group life, accident, or health insurance plan
    2-4  that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed under the Texas
    2-5  State College and University Employees Uniform Insurance Benefits
    2-6  Act (Article 3.50-3, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code), on or after
    2-7  January 1, 1994.  A plan that is delivered, issued for delivery, or
    2-8  renewed before January 1, 1994, is governed by the law as it
    2-9  existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
   2-10  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   2-11        SECTION 3.  No general revenue funds may be used to pay
   2-12  premiums or make any employer contributions authorized by this act
   2-13  for any member of a governing board of an institution covered by
   2-14  this act.
   2-15        SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   2-16  and the crowded conditions of the calendars in both houses create
   2-17  an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.