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.