By: Armbrister S.B. No. 682 97S0467/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to advertisements for health insurance coverage. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 397, Acts of the 54th 1-4 Legislature, 1955 (Article 3.70-2, Insurance Code), is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (N) to read as follows: 1-6 (N) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21.21, 1-7 Insurance Code, an advertisement for an individual or group policy 1-8 of accident and sickness insurance, including a policy issued by a 1-9 company subject to Chapter 20, Insurance Code, and an evidence of 1-10 coverage issued by a health maintenance organization subject to the 1-11 Texas Health Maintenance Organization Act (Chapter 20A, Vernon's 1-12 Texas Insurance Code), may include rates without the listing of all 1-13 exclusions and benefit limitations if accompanied by disclaimers 1-14 which clearly indicate that the advertised rates are illustrative 1-15 and that benefit limitations and exclusions may apply. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.