By Noriega H.B. No. 3522 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a mandatory limitation on premium increases for certain 1-3 policyholders who are 65 years of age or older. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 5.101, Insurance Code, Vernon's Texas 1-6 Civil Statutes, is amended by adding Section 6 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 6. LIMITATION ON PREMIUM INCREASES FOR CERTAIN COVERED 1-8 INDIVIDUALS 65 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. Notwithstanding anything 1-9 elsewhere in this Article, rates for policyholders subject to this 1-10 Article shall not exceed the rate that is applicable on the date of 1-11 the last renewal of the policy prior to the policyholders' 1-12 sixty-fifth date of birth. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.