By Brimer H.B. No. 2198 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain information required of property and casualty 1-3 insurers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Insurance Code is amended by adding Article 1-6 1.41 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 1.41. DATA REPORTING. Insurers shall not report the 1-8 data required by Articles 1.24A, 1.24B and 5.58A, unless the Board 1-9 shall find after public notice and hearing thereon, that there is 1-10 an urgent public and regulatory necessity for such data to be 1-11 reported by those insurers. The hearing and any finding by the 1-12 Board may relate to one or all of the aforementioned Articles. 1-13 Inception of compliance shall be not less than six months after an 1-14 affirmative finding, and the reporting thereby required may 1-15 continue from inception for not more than three years. The Board 1-16 shall give notice and call a hearing to consider whether such a 1-17 necessity exists if requested to do so by the Governor. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.