1-1  By:  McDonald (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief)             H.B. No. 1362
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1995;
    1-3  May 17, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 19, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to certain health care liability claims for which the
    1-9  state provides indemnification.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  The following laws are repealed:
   1-12              (1)  Chapter 110, Civil Practice and Remedies Code; and
   1-13              (2)  Article 5.15-4, Insurance Code.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by the repeal of Chapter
   1-15  110, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, by this Act does not apply
   1-16  to a claim eligible for payment under that chapter and filed with
   1-17  the attorney general in accordance with that chapter before the
   1-18  effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
   1-19  effect for that purpose.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-25  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-26  passage, and it is so enacted.
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