By Burnam H.B. No. 202 76R731 PB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to remedies for certain practices in the business of 1-3 insuring motor vehicles against damage. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 5.07-1, Insurance Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-7 (j) A person commits an unfair and deceptive act or practice 1-8 in the business of insurance if the person violates Subsection (b) 1-9 of this article, and is subject to each penalty and other sanction 1-10 provided by Article 21.21 of this code for that violation. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.