Amend CSHB 587 as follows: (1) In SECTION 2 of the bill, in added Section 534.104, Health and Safety Code, strike Subsection (a) (page 2, lines 45-50, senate committee printing) and substitute: (a) A nonprofit health maintenance organization created under Section 534.101 is a health care provider that is a nonprofit health maintenance organization created and operated by a community center for purposes of Section 84.007(e), Civil Practice and Remedies Code. The nonprofit health maintenance organization is not a governmental unit or a unit of local government, for purposes of Chapters 101 and 102, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, respectively, or a local government for purposes of Chapter 791, Government Code. (2) In SECTION 2 of the bill (page 2, line 44, senate committee printing), at the end of added Section 534.103, Health and Safety Code, insert the following: The commissioner of insurance may adopt rules as necessary to accept funding sources other than the sources specified by Section 13, Texas Health Maintenance Organization Act (Article 20A.13, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code), from a nonprofit health maintenance organization created and operating under this subchapter, to meet the minimum surplus requirements of that section. (3) Insert the following appropriately numbered section: SECTION ____. Section 84.007(e), Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows: (e) Sections 84.005 and 84.006 of this chapter do not apply to a health care provider as defined in the Medical Liability and Insurance Improvement Act of Texas (Article 4590i, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), unless the provider is a federally funded migrant or community health center under the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.A. Sections 254(b) and (c)) or is a nonprofit health maintenance organization created and operated by a community center under Section 534.101, Health and Safety Code, or unless the provider usually provides discounted services at or below costs based on the ability of the beneficiary to pay. Acceptance of Medicare or Medicaid payments will not disqualify a health care provider under this section. In no event shall Sections 84.005 and 84.006 of this chapter apply to a general hospital or special hospital as defined in Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, or a facility or institution licensed under Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code, or Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code, or to any health maintenance organization created and operating under the Texas Health Maintenance Organization Act (Chapter 20A, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code), except for a nonprofit health maintenance organization created under Section 534.101, Health and Safety Code. (4) Renumber subsequent sections of the bill appropriately.