By Farabee                                            H.B. No. 1829
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to membership in the Texas Property and Casualty Insurance
 1-3     Guaranty Association.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 5(10), Article 21.28-C, Insurance Code,
 1-6     is amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (10)  "Member insurer" means any insurer [person] who:
 1-8                       (A)  writes any kind of insurance to which this
 1-9     Act applies under Section 3 of this Act, including the exchange of
1-10     reciprocal or inter-insurance contracts; and
1-11                       (B)  is licensed to transact insurance in this
1-12     state, including any stock, mutual, Lloyds insurer, reciprocal or
1-13     inter-insurance exchange, or county mutual insurance company.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.