By Smithee H.B. No. 772
74R2848 PB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain persons who are prohibited from representing
1-3 others before the Texas Department of Insurance.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 1.06C(b), Insurance Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) A former member of the former State Board of Insurance,
1-8 a former commissioner, a former general counsel, a former public
1-9 counsel, a staff employee of a member of the former State Board of
1-10 Insurance, or a former employee of the board or of the State Office
1-11 of Administrative Hearings may not represent any person or receive
1-12 compensation for services rendered on behalf of any person
1-13 regarding a matter with which the former member, commissioner,
1-14 general counsel, public counsel, <division head,> or employee was
1-15 directly concerned during the period of service or employment on or
1-16 with the board or the State Office of Administrative Hearings or as
1-17 commissioner or public counsel, either through personal involvement
1-18 or because the matter was within the member's, commissioner's,
1-19 general counsel's, <public counsel's,> or employee's official
1-20 responsibility while associated with the board or the State Office
1-21 of Administrative Hearings, or while serving as commissioner or
1-22 public counsel.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.