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.