By: Dear H.B. No. 1568 73R5857 PB-D 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.