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 The following laws are repealed: 1-6 (1) Article 5.06, Insurance Code; 1-7 (2) Section 8, Article 5.13-2, Insurance Code; and 1-8 (3) Article 5.35, Insurance Code. 1-9 SECTION 2.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.