73R7103 PB-F By Johnson H.B. No. 2712 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the assignment of health care benefit payments by a 1-3 person covered by the Texas public school retired employees group 1-4 insurance program. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 2, Article 21.24-1, Insurance Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-8 (c) This article applies to insurance coverage provided 1-9 under the Texas Public School Retired Employees Group Insurance Act 1-10 (Article 3.50-4, Insurance Code). 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and 1-12 applies only to a health insurance policy or contract for a health 1-13 benefit plan that is entered into, delivered, issued for delivery, 1-14 or renewed on or after January 1, 1994. A policy or contract that 1-15 is entered into, delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before 1-16 January 1, 1994, is governed by the law as it existed immediately 1-17 before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in 1-18 effect for that purpose. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.