By Smithee                                            H.B. No. 3020
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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;
1-11                 (2)  Article 21.49-8, Insurance Code; and
1-12                 (3) [(2)]  Article 3.51-6, Section 3B, Insurance Code.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.