Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Haggerty H.B. No. 652 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 Amending Article 3.70-13, relating to certain policies continuous. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1: Article 3.70-13, Insurance Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Article 3.70-13 1-7 (a) A guaranteed renewable policy or a noncancellable policy 1-8 shall be deemed to be a continuous policy, subject only to the 1-9 terms and conditions thereof, including payment of policy premiums, 1-10 and such policies shall be considered to be continued in force by 1-11 the policy terms and conditions, and such policies shall not be 1-12 deemed or treated as renewed policies by the payment of such 1-13 contracted policy premiums. This article does not apply to a 1-14 health benefit plan adopted in accordance with Chapter 26 of this 1-15 code, as added by H.B. No. 2055, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1-16 Regular Session, 1993. 1-17 (b) Guaranteed renewable policies may be issued to persons 1-18 sixty-one years of age or older for any term of years but not less 1-19 than two. 1-20 SECTION 2: In the event that a court of competent 1-21 jurisdiction shall declare any provision of this Act 1-22 unconstitutional, the unconstitutional provision shall be severed 1-23 from the remaining provisions, which shall continue in full force 1-24 and effect. 2-1 SECTION 3: Any rule adopted by the Commissioner which is not 2-2 in conformity to the standards set forth in Section 1 of this Act 2-3 shall be null and void and of no force or effect. 2-4 SECTION 4: If this law is in conflict with any other law, 2-5 rule, regulation, or provision of the code, this law shall 2-6 control. 2-7 SECTION 5: The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.