1-1 By: Henderson S.B. No. 1101
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 14, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 April 12, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
1-5 Nays 1; April 12, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to injunctive proceedings by the attorney general against
1-9 persons engaged in the insurance business.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 15, Article 21.21,
1-12 Insurance Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) If the Commissioner <Attorney General> has reason to
1-14 believe that any person in the insurance business in this state is
1-15 engaging in, has engaged in, or is about to engage in any act or
1-16 practice declared to be unlawful by this Article or rules or
1-17 regulations issued under this Article or by Section 17.46 of the
1-18 Business & Commerce Code, as amended, and that proceedings would be
1-19 in the public interest, the Commissioner may request that the
1-20 Attorney General <may> bring an action in the name of the state
1-21 against the person to restrain by temporary or permanent injunction
1-22 the use of such method, act, or practice.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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