By Dutton                                       H.B. No. 1815

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                                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.