By Shields H.B. No. 2665 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the regulation of the insurance industry. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 21, Art. 21.24-1, Sec. 1-5 1(6), Insurance Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (6) "Insurer" means an insurance company, association or 1-7 organization authorized to do business in this state under Chapter 1-8 3, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, or 22 of this code. 1-9 SECTION 2. This section takes effect September 1, 1993, and 1-10 applies to a health insurance policy or contract for an employee 1-11 benefit plan that is entered into, delivered, issued for delivery, 1-12 or renewed on or after that date. A policy or contract entered 1-13 into, delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before September 1-14 1, 1992 is subject to the law as it existed immediately before the 1-15 effective date of this section, and the law is continued for that 1-16 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 both to be read on three several days 1-21 in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and 1-22 this Act take effect and be in force according to its terms, and it 1-23 is so enacted.