By Smithee                                             H.B. No. 776
       74R2849 PB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the acceptance of certain federal funds by the Texas
    1-3  Department of Insurance.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 1, Insurance Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Article 1.35E to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 1.35E.  CONSUMER EDUCATION FUNDS.  The department may
    1-8  accept federal funds that are allocated for consumer education
    1-9  programs relating to insurance issues.  The commissioner may adopt
   1-10  rules as necessary to implement this article.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.