By Dukes                                               H.B. No. 622
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to immunity in certain insurance fraud investigations.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 6(a), Article 1.10D, Insurance Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  A person acting without malice, fraudulent intent, or
 1-7     bad faith is not subject to liability based on filing reports or
 1-8     furnishing, orally or in writing, other information concerning
 1-9     suspected, anticipated, or completed fraudulent insurance acts if
1-10     the reports or information are provided to:
1-11                 (1)  a law enforcement officer or an agent or employee
1-12     of a law enforcement officer;
1-13                 (2)  the National Association of Insurance
1-14     Commissioners, a state or federal governmental agency established
1-15     to detect and prevent fraudulent insurance acts or to regulate the
1-16     business of insurance, or an employee of that association or
1-17     governmental agency; [or]
1-18                 (3)  an authorized governmental agency or the
1-19     department; or
1-20                 (4)  a special investigative unit of an insurer or an
1-21     employee of an insurer who is responsible for the investigation of
1-22     suspected fraudulent insurance acts.
1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.