By Kubiak                                             H.B. No. 2606
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                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the power to suspend or revoke any certificate of
    1-3  authority issued to a health maintenance organization.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 20A.20(a) of the Texas Insurance Code is
    1-6  amended by striking the current provision in its entirety and
    1-7  substituting therefor the following:
    1-8        (a)  The Commissioner may, after notice of hearing, suspend
    1-9  or revoke any certificate of authority issued to a health
   1-10  maintenance organization under this act if the Commissioner finds
   1-11  that any of the following conditions exist.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded conditions of the  calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rules requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.