By: Henderson S.B. No. 1101
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to injunctive proceedings by the Attorney General against
1-2 persons engaged in the insurance business.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 15(a), Article 21.21, Insurance Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) If the Commissioner <Attorney General> has reason to
1-7 believe that any person in the insurance business in this state is
1-8 engaging in, has engaged in, or is about to engage in any act or
1-9 practice declared to be unlawful by this Article or rules or
1-10 regulations issued under this Article or by Section 17.46 of the
1-11 Business & Commerce Code, as amended, and that proceedings would be
1-12 in the public interest, the Commissioner may request that the
1-13 Attorney General <may> bring an action in the name of the state
1-14 against the person to restrain by temporary or permanent injunction
1-15 the use of such method, act, or practice.
1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.