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      By Eiland                                       H.B. No. 2092

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to advertisements for health insurance coverage.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Chapter 397, Acts of the 54th

 1-5     Legislature, 1955 (Article 3.70-2, Insurance Code), is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsection (N) to read as follows:

 1-7           (N)  Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21.21,

 1-8     Insurance Code, an advertisement for an individual or group policy

 1-9     of accident and sickness insurance, including a policy issued by a

1-10     company subject to Chapter 20, Insurance Code, and an evidence of

1-11     coverage issued by a health maintenance organization subject to the

1-12     Texas Health Maintenance Organization Act (Chapter 20A, Vernon's

1-13     Texas Insurance Code), may include rates without the listing of all

1-14     exclusions and benefit limitations if accompanied by disclaimers

1-15     which clearly indicate that the advertised rates are illustrative

1-16     and that benefit limitations and exclusions may apply.

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.