By Averitt H.B. No. 2793 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to waiver of a motor vehicle insurance deductible on 1-3 repair of a damaged automobile windshield. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 21, Insurance Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Article 21.79H to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 21.79H. WAIVER OF MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE DEDUCTIBLES ON 1-8 REPAIR OF A DAMAGED AUTOMOBILE WINDSHIELD. A motor vehicle insurer 1-9 may adopt a uniform and non-discriminatory practice of allowing the 1-10 waiver of an insured's deductible when the insured agrees in 1-11 writing to have damaged automobile windshield glass on the 1-12 insured's vehicle repaired rather than replaced. The Commissioner 1-13 may adopt rules to implement this article. 1-14 SECTION 2. This act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.