By Counts H.B. No. 2903 76R8837 DLF-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to rates for certain lines of insurance. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3, Article 5.101, Insurance Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (r) to read as follows: 1-6 (r) In order to avoid the circumvention of the flexible 1-7 rating program, and notwithstanding Article 17.22(b) of this code, 1-8 a county mutual insurance company may not write private passenger 1-9 automobile insurance for any insured at a rate, including any 1-10 applicable policy fee, that, after the application of any discount 1-11 available to the insured under department rules, is lower than the 1-12 highest rate allowed under the flexibility band for that insured. 1-13 Not later than the 60th day after the effective date of a benchmark 1-14 rate, a county mutual insurance company shall make any filing 1-15 necessary to comply with this subsection. The rates of the county 1-16 mutual insurance company that are in effect on the effective date 1-17 of the benchmark rate continue in effect until the filing is made. 1-18 This subsection does not apply to single interest insurance or 1-19 insurance on mobile homes, motor homes, travel trailers, or 1-20 motorcycles. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a rate applicable to an 1-22 insurance policy that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed 1-23 on or after September 1, 1999. A rate applicable to an insurance 1-24 policy that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before 2-1 September 1, 1999, is governed by the law as it existed immediately 2-2 before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in 2-3 effect for this purpose. 2-4 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.