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; and declaring an emergency.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Amend Article 21.28-C, Section 5(10), Insurance
 1-6     Code, 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 the 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 [or
1-14     other insurer licensed to transact insurance in this state].
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY CLAUSE.  The importance of this
1-17     legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both
1-18     houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
1-19     the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.