By Uher                                               H.B. No. 2434
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to insurance provided by or through certain development
 1-3     corporations created by certain political subdivisions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 23, Development Corporation Act of 1979
 1-6     (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any corporation
 1-9     created by a unit under this act may, with the consent of the unit,
1-10     obtain health benefits coverage, liability coverage, workers'
1-11     compensation coverage, and property coverage under the unit's
1-12     insurance policies, self-funded coverage, or coverage provided
1-13     under an Interlocal Agreement with other political subdivisions.
1-14     Health benefits coverage may be extended to the corporation's
1-15     directors and employees, and the dependents of such directors and
1-16     employees.  Workers' compensation benefits may be extended to the
1-17     corporation's directors, employees, and volunteers.  The liability
1-18     coverage may be extended to protect the corporation and its
1-19     directors and employees.
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.