73R5857 PB-D
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) A plan that does not provide a benefit other than
1-8 consultation and advice on a simple legal matter, either alone or
1-9 in combination with a referral service and the promise of fee
1-10 discounts for other matters, does not constitute a prepaid legal
1-11 services contract subject to this article.
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
1-13 applies only to a prepaid legal services contract entered into on
1-14 or after that date. A contract entered before that date is
1-15 governed by the law in effect on the date that the contract was
1-16 entered, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-23 Amend HB 1568, page 1 line 7 and page 1 Section 2, line 13 to read
1-24 as follows:
2-1 (g) For the purpose of establishing and maintaining
2-2 rates, a plan that does not provide a benefit other than
2-3 consultation and advice on a simple legal matter, either alone or
2-4 in combination with a referral service and the promise of fee
2-5 discounts for other matters, does not constitute a prepaid legal
2-6 service contract subject to this article.
2-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
2-8 applies only to a prepaid legal services contract issued or renewed
2-9 <entered into> on or after that date. <A contract entered before
2-10 that date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the
2-11 contract entered, and that law is continued in effect for that
2-12 purpose.>
2-13 Rudd