By Counts                                             H.B. No. 2782
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to appeals from decisions of the Texas Workers'
    1-3  Compensation Insurance Facility to the State Board of Insurance.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 2.08, Article 5.76-2,
    1-6  Insurance Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  The board shall set for hearing <hear> the appeal from
    1-8  an act or decision of the facility not later than the 30th day
    1-9  after the day the request for hearing is made. The board shall
   1-10  notify the facility and the appellant in writing of the time and
   1-11  place of the hearing not later than the 10th day before the date of
   1-12  the hearing.  Not later than the 30th day after the last day of the
   1-13  hearing, the board shall affirm, reverse, or modify the facility's
   1-14  <its previous action on the> act appealed to the board.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.