By Dutton H.B. No. 1815
75R6364 SAW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to injunctive proceedings to restrain the use of an
1-3 insurance business practice.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 15(a), Article 21.21, Insurance Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) If the commissioner [Attorney General] has reason to
1-8 believe that any person in the insurance business in this state is
1-9 engaging in, has engaged in, or is about to engage in any act or
1-10 practice declared to be unlawful by this Article or rules or
1-11 regulations issued under this Article or by Section 17.46, [of the]
1-12 Business & Commerce Code[, as amended], and that proceedings would
1-13 be in the public interest, the commissioner may request that the
1-14 Attorney General [may] bring an action in the name of the state
1-15 against the person to restrain by temporary or permanent injunction
1-16 the use of such method, act, or practice.
1-17 SECTION 2. 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,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.