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.