By Craddick H.B. No. 578 75R3862 DLF-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to powers of certain nonresident insurance agents. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Articles 21.09 and 21.11, Insurance Code, are 1-5 repealed. 1-6 SECTION 2. Section 3, Article 21.14, Insurance Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-8 (f) Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (b) of this section, 1-9 an individual licensed agent is not required to be a resident of 1-10 this state if the license is issued to the agent in accordance with 1-11 Section 3, Article 21.01-2, of this code. 1-12 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-13 applies only to conduct occurring on or after that date. Conduct 1-14 occurring before the effective date of this Act is governed by the 1-15 law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this 1-16 Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.