By Truan                                              S.B. No. 1419
       74R6776 PB-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to insurance coverage for certain real property
    1-3  foundations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 5.35-2, Insurance Code, is repealed.
    1-6        SECTION 2.  (a)  An endorsement that was authorized under
    1-7  Article 5.35-2, Insurance Code, as that article existed prior to
    1-8  repeal by this Act, may not be used on any policy delivered, issued
    1-9  for delivery, or renewed on or after the effective date of this
   1-10  Act.
   1-11        (b)  The repeal of Article 5.35-2, Insurance Code, by this
   1-12  Act does not otherwise affect the authority of the commissioner of
   1-13  insurance under other provisions of the Insurance Code to
   1-14  promulgate policy and endorsement provisions regarding the
   1-15  foundation or slab of an insured dwelling.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  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.