1-1     By:  Smithee (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)                H.B. No. 3020
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
 1-4     Development; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the withdrawal from operations by a health maintenance
 1-9     organization.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 26(i), Texas Health Maintenance
1-12     Organization Act (Article 20A.26, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code),
1-13     is amended to read as follows:
1-14           (i)  A [Any] health maintenance organization authorized under
1-15     this Act is [shall be] subject to:
1-16                 (1)  Article 21.49-2C, Insurance Code, and is an
1-17     authorized insurer for the purposes of that article;
1-18                 (2)  Article 21.49-8, Insurance Code; and
1-19                 (3) [(2)]  Article 3.51-6, Section 3B, Insurance Code.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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