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.