By Smithee                                             H.B. No. 770
       74R2834 PB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the attorney for service of process of certain
    1-3  insurance companies.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 1(e), Article 1.28, Insurance Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  Both the domestic insurance company and the controlling
    1-8  person of the affiliated insurance holding company system must
    1-9  appoint and maintain a person in this state as attorney for service
   1-10  of process in the manner provided by Section 2(b), Article 1.36, of
   1-11  this code <have duly appointed the commissioner of insurance as
   1-12  their attorney for service for all judicial and administrative
   1-13  processes>.  The commissioner is authorized to accept service and
   1-14  notify the insurance company, in the manner provided by Section 3,
   1-15  Article 1.36, of this code, if the insurance company does not
   1-16  appoint or maintain an attorney for acceptance of process.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.