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.