By Brimer                                             H.B. No. 2122
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to deductibles for workers' compensation insurance.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section (a), Article 5.55C, Texas Insurance Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The commissioner <Board> shall allow <require> each
    1-7  company or association that writes workers' compensation insurance
    1-8  in this state to offer optional deductible plans which permit <to
    1-9  allow> policyholders to self-insure for the deductible amount.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.