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.
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