By Dutton                                       H.B. No. 2751

      75R8266 DLF-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to regulation of policy forms for certain lines of

 1-3     insurance.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  The following laws are repealed:

 1-6                 (1)  Article 5.06, Insurance Code;

 1-7                 (2)  Section 8, Article 5.13-2, Insurance Code; and

 1-8                 (3)  Article 5.35, Insurance Code.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  Chapter 5, Insurance Code, is amended by adding

1-10     Subchapter P to read as follows:

1-11                         SUBCHAPTER P. POLICY FORMS

1-12           Art. 5.151.  COMMISSIONER RULE.  The commissioner may adopt

1-13     rules governing the use of policy forms for insurance subject to

1-14     this chapter, including insurance subject to Subchapters A, B, and

1-15     C of this chapter. The rules may require the use of forms

1-16     promulgated by the commissioner or the use of forms approved by or

1-17     filed with the commissioner and may include other restrictions on

1-18     the types of forms that may be used.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.