By Duncan H.B. No. 1206 74R4769 PB-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain limitations on a contract or agreement 1-3 regarding individual policies of insurance. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 5.35(c), Insurance Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (c) An insurer may not enter into a contract or agreement 1-8 concerning the scope of coverage under an individual policy that is 1-9 not contained in the policy. Such a contract or agreement is void. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-11 applies only to an insurance policy that is delivered, issued for 1-12 delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 1996. A policy that is 1-13 delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 1996, 1-14 is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the 1-15 effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for 1-16 that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.