By Kubiak H.B. No. 2607 74R7968 T A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duty to examine the affairs of a health maintenance 1-3 organization. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 20A.17 of the Texas Insurance Code is 1-6 amended by striking the current Subsections (a) and (b) and 1-7 substituting therefor the following: 1-8 (a) The Commissioner may make an examination of the affairs 1-9 of any health maintenance organization as is deemed necessary, but 1-10 not less frequently than once every three years, except a single 1-11 purpose health maintenance organization, which does not pay claims, 1-12 shall not be subject to this examination so long as it is 1-13 furnishing an independent audit of financial statement, as required 1-14 by Art. 1.15A of the Insurance Code. 1-15 (b) The Commissioner may make an examination concerning the 1-16 quality of health care services of any health care organization as 1-17 often as is deemed necessary if no other state agency has examined 1-18 such quality of health care within the last three years. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded conditions of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rules requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.