74R9728 DLF-D
          By McDonald                                           H.B. No. 1362
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1362:
          By Alvarado                                       C.S.H.B. No. 1362
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain health care liability claims for which the
    1-3  state provides indemnification.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The following laws are repealed:
    1-6              (1)  Chapter 110, Civil Practice and Remedies Code; and
    1-7              (2)  Article 5.15-4, Insurance Code.
    1-8        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    1-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-14  passage, and it is so enacted.