Amend CSHB 3603 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumbering existing SECTIONS of the bill appropriately: SECTION ____. Subchapter A, Chapter 5, Insurance Code, is amended by adding Article 5.06-7 to read as follows: Art. 5.06-7. SETTLEMENT OF CLAIM; REQUIRED STATEMENT OF FACTS. (a) In this article, "insurer" means an insurance company, interinsurance exchange, mutual, capital stock company, fraternal benefit society, local mutual aid association, county mutual, reciprocal, association, Lloyd's plan, or other entity writing motor vehicle insurance in this state. The term includes an affiliate, as defined by Section 2, Article 21.49-1, of this code. (b) An insurer may not require a third party claimant to give a statement of the facts relating to a motor vehicle insurance claim as a condition of determining whether to pay or settle the claim unless the third party claimant is given an opportunity to obtain a statement in a similar format from the insurer's insured. This article does not apply if the insured is unable to give a statement for a reason outside the insurer's control. SECTION ____. Article 5.06-7, Insurance Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a motor vehicle insurance claim that accrues on or after September 1, 1999. A claim that accrues before September 1, 1999, is governed by the law as it existed immediately before that date, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.