1-1  By:  McCall (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)                H.B. No. 46
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 6, 1995;
    1-3  April 10, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Economic Development; May 18, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 18, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to consideration of certain claims in nonrenewal of
    1-9  certain insurance policies.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 7(a), Article 21.49-2B, Insurance Code,
   1-12  is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  This section applies only to standard fire, homeowners',
   1-14  and farm or ranch owners' insurance policies.  A claim under this
   1-15  section does not include:
   1-16              (1)  a claim resulting from a loss caused by natural
   1-17  causes; or
   1-18              (2)  a claim that is filed but is not paid or payable
   1-19  under the policy.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-21  applies only to a claim filed with the insurer on or after that
   1-22  date.  A claim filed before September 1, 1995, is governed by the
   1-23  law as it existed before the effective date of this Act, and that
   1-24  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-25        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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