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.