1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to review of mandated coverage in health benefit plans. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 21.52D, Insurance Code, as added by 1-5 Chapter 607, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, 1-6 is repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2. The mandated benefit review panel established 1-8 under Section 21.52D, Insurance Code, as added by Chapter 607, Acts 1-9 of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is abolished on 1-10 the effective date of this Act. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2180 was passed by the House on May 1, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2180 was passed by the Senate on May 26, 1997, by a viva-voce vote. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor