By Dear                                               H.B. No. 1568
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to an exception from certain requirements regarding
    1-3  prepaid legal services contracts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 5.13-1, Insurance Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
    1-7        (g)  For the purpose of establishing and maintaining rates, a
    1-8  plan that does not provide a benefit other than consultation and
    1-9  advice on a simple legal matter, either alone or in combination
   1-10  with a referral service and the promise of fee discounts for other
   1-11  matters, does not constitute a prepaid legal services contract
   1-12  subject to this article.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-14  applies only to a prepaid legal services contract issued or renewed
   1-15  on or after that date.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.