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.