By Hunter of Nueces                                    H.B. No. 347
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to insurance coverage for certain real property
    1-3  foundations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 5.35-2, Insurance Code, is repealed.
    1-6        SECTION 2.  An endorsement for an insurance policy that was
    1-7  authorized under Article 5.35-2, Insurance Code, may not be used on
    1-8  any policy issued or renewed after the effective date of this Act.
    1-9  The repeal of Article 5.35-2 shall not otherwise effect the
   1-10  Commissioner's authority under other provisions of the Insurance
   1-11  Code to promulgate policy and endorsement provisions regarding
   1-12  foundations or slabs of insured dwellings.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation  and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hearby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.