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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