By Dutton H.B. No. 2647 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the rules for general application of the Texas 1-3 Department of Insurance. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 1.03A, Insurance Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 The Commissioner may adopt rules and regulations for the 1-8 conduct and execution of the duties and functions of the department 1-9 only as authorized by a statute. Rules and regulations adopted in 1-10 accordance with this subsection must reference the statute 1-11 authorizing such rule or regulation and must be for general and 1-12 uniform application and shall be published by the Commissioner on 1-13 the basis of a systematic organization of such rules by their 1-14 subject matter and content. Such published rules shall be kept 1-15 current and shall be available in a form convenient to all 1-16 interested persons. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.