By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1467
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to deductibles for workers' compensation insurance.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section (a), Article 5.55C, Texas Insurance Code,
    1-4  is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (a)  The commissioner <Board> shall allow <require> each
    1-6  company or association that writes workers' compensation insurance
    1-7  in this state to offer optional deductible plans which permit <to
    1-8  allow> policyholders to self-insure for the deductible amount.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.