By Farrar H.B. No. 2875 76R6817 DLF-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the premium tax on certain life, health, and accident 1-3 insurance policies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2(c), Article 4.11, Insurance Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (c) "Gross premiums" are the total gross amount of all 1-8 premiums, membership fees, assessments, dues, and any other 1-9 considerations for such insurance received during the taxable year 1-10 on each and every kind of such insurance policy or contract 1-11 covering persons located in the State of Texas and arising from the 1-12 types of insurance specified in Section 1 of this article, but 1-13 deducting returned premiums, any dividends applied to purchase 1-14 paid-up additions to insurance or to shorten the endowment or 1-15 premium payment period, and excluding those premiums received from 1-16 insurance carriers for reinsurance and there shall be no deduction 1-17 for premiums paid for reinsurance. For purposes of this article, a 1-18 stop-loss or excess loss insurance policy issued to a health 1-19 maintenance organization, as defined under the Texas Health 1-20 Maintenance Organization Act (Chapter 20A, Vernon's Texas Insurance 1-21 Code), shall be considered reinsurance. Such gross premiums shall 1-22 not include premiums received from the Treasury of the State of 1-23 Texas or from the Treasury of the United States for insurance 1-24 contracted for by the state or federal government for the purpose 2-1 of providing welfare benefits to designated welfare recipients or 2-2 for insurance contracted for by the state or federal government in 2-3 accordance with or in furtherance of the provisions of Title 2, 2-4 Human Resources Code, or the Federal Social Security Act. The 2-5 gross premiums receipts so reported shall not include the amount of 2-6 premiums paid on group health, accident, and life policies: 2-7 (1) in which the group covered by the policy consists 2-8 of a single nonprofit trust established to provide coverage 2-9 primarily for municipal or county employees of this state; or 2-10 (2) for which any part of the premium is paid by a 2-11 school district. 2-12 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect January 1, 2000. 2-13 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to a 2-14 premium tax imposed under Article 4.11, Insurance Code, as amended 2-15 by this Act, beginning January 1, 2000. A tax imposed under that 2-16 article before January 1, 2000, is governed by the law that existed 2-17 in the tax year in which that tax was imposed, and that law is 2-18 continued in effect for that purpose. 2-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.