By: Uher H.B. No. 723
73R3548 PB-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the eligibility of officials of certain institutions of
1-3 higher education to participate in the uniform group insurance
1-4 program established for employees of those institutions.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 3(4)(A), Texas State College and
1-7 University Employees Uniform Insurance Benefits Act (Article
1-8 3.50-3, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code), is amended to read as
1-9 follows:
1-10 (A) "Employee" means a member of the governing
1-11 board of an institution or <shall mean> any person employed by a
1-12 governing board of an institution:
1-13 (i) who retires under the provisions cited
1-14 in Subsection (a)(2) of this section;
1-15 (ii) who receives his compensation for
1-16 services rendered to an institution on a warrant or check issued
1-17 pursuant to a payroll certified by an institution or by an elected
1-18 or duly appointed officer of this state, and who is eligible for
1-19 participation in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; or
1-20 (iii) who receives his compensation for
1-21 services rendered as provided in this subdivision but is not
1-22 permitted to be a member of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
1-23 because he is solely employed by an institution of higher education
1-24 that as a condition of employment requires the employee to be
2-1 enrolled as a student in the institution in graduate-level courses
2-2 and who is employed at least 20 hours a week.
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
2-4 applies only to a group life, accident, or health insurance plan
2-5 that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed under the Texas
2-6 State College and University Employees Uniform Insurance Benefits
2-7 Act (Article 3.50-3, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code), on or after
2-8 January 1, 1994. A plan that is delivered, issued for delivery, or
2-9 renewed before January 1, 1994, is governed by the law as it
2-10 existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
2-11 law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.