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.