1-1 By: Hupp (Senate Sponsor - Fraser) H.B. No. 362 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999; 1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 10, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Shapleigh 1-7 Amend H.B. No. 362 (house engrossment) as follows: 1-8 (1) Strike SECTION 3 of the bill (page 1, line 58). 1-9 (2) Renumber SECTION 4 of the bill (page 1, line 59) as 1-10 SECTION 3. 1-11 (3) Strike SECTION 5 of the bill (page 2, lines 15-19) and 1-12 substitute the following: 1-13 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-21 AN ACT 1-22 relating to the eligibility of certain higher education employees 1-23 to participate in group programs under the Texas Employees Uniform 1-24 Group Insurance Benefits Act. 1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-26 SECTION 1. The Texas Employees Uniform Group Insurance 1-27 Benefits Act (Article 3.50-2, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code) is 1-28 amended by adding Section 13C to read as follows: 1-29 Sec. 13C. CERTAIN EMPLOYEES INELIGIBLE. (a) An employee of 1-30 a public community/junior college who is employed to perform 1-31 services outside of this state is not eligible to participate in 1-32 the group programs provided under this Act unless the college 1-33 elects, in accordance with procedures adopted by the trustee, to 1-34 permit such employees to participate in those programs. 1-35 (b) For purposes of this section, an employee is employed to 1-36 perform services outside of this state if 75 percent or more of the 1-37 services performed by the employee are performed outside of this 1-38 state. 1-39 (c) This section does not apply to a person employed by a 1-40 public community/junior college on August 31, 1999. That person 1-41 remains eligible to participate in the group programs provided by 1-42 this Act, in the same manner as other employees of the college, 1-43 even if the person's employment by the college is not continuous. 1-44 SECTION 2. Section 13(c), Texas Employees Uniform Group 1-45 Insurance Benefits Act (Article 3.50-2, Vernon's Texas Insurance 1-46 Code), is amended to read as follows: 1-47 (c) Unless expelled from the program under Section 13A of 1-48 this Act or ineligible for the program under Section 13C of this 1-49 Act, each part-time employee and each employee of an institution of 1-50 higher education who is described by Section 3(a)(5)(A)(x) of this 1-51 Act is eligible for participation in the group programs provided 1-52 under this Act upon execution of appropriate application for 1-53 coverage. An institution of higher education shall, at the time of 1-54 employment, notify each eligible employee of the institution who is 1-55 described by Section 3(a)(5)(A)(x) of this Act of the employee's 1-56 eligibility to participate in the group programs provided under 1-57 this Act. 1-58 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect August 31, 1999. 1-59 SECTION 4. (a) Notwithstanding Section 13C, Texas Employees 1-60 Uniform Group Insurance Benefits Act (Article 3.50-2, Vernon's 1-61 Texas Insurance Code), as added by this Act, an employee of a 1-62 public community/junior college who is employed to perform services 1-63 outside of this state and who is employed after the effective date 2-1 of this Act is eligible to participate in a group program provided 2-2 under the Texas Employees Uniform Group Insurance Benefits Act 2-3 (Article 3.50-2, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code), if the program is 2-4 provided under an insurance policy, contract, or other agreement 2-5 that: 2-6 (1) is in effect on the effective date of this Act; 2-7 and 2-8 (2) requires that the employee be eligible to 2-9 participate in the program provided under the insurance policy, 2-10 contract, or other agreement. 2-11 (b) Eligibility to participate in a group program under 2-12 Subsection (a) of this section terminates on the date that the 2-13 insurance policy, contract, or other agreement is terminated or 2-14 renewed. 2-15 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 2-20 * * * * *