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 1-6     is repealed.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.

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             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.

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                                                 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.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor