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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