1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the withdrawal from operations by a health maintenance
1-3 organization.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 26(i), Texas Health Maintenance
1-6 Organization Act (Article 20A.26, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code),
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (i) A [Any] health maintenance organization authorized under
1-9 this Act is [shall be] subject to:
1-10 (1) Article 21.49-2C, Insurance Code, and is an
1-11 authorized insurer for the purposes of that article;
1-12 (2) Article 21.49-8, Insurance Code; and
1-13 (3) [(2)] Article 3.51-6, Section 3B, Insurance Code.
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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3020 was passed by the House on April
30, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3020 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor