By:  Ellis                                             S.B. No. 321
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to collection of attorney's fees in certain contract
 1-2     actions.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 38.006, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
 1-5     is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 38.006.  EXCEPTIONS.  This chapter does not apply to a
 1-7     contract issued by an insurer to the extent fees are recovered
 1-8     under [that is subject to the provisions of]:
 1-9                 (1)  [Article 3.62, Insurance Code;]
1-10                 [(2)  Section 1, Chapter 387, Acts of the 55th
1-11     Legislature, Regular Session, 1957 (Article 3.62-1, Vernon's Texas
1-12     Insurance Code);]
1-13                 [(3)]  Chapter 9, Insurance Code;
1-14                 (2) [(4)]  Article 21.21, Insurance Code; [or]
1-15                 (3) [(5)]  the Unfair Claim Settlement Practices Act
1-16     (Article 21.21-2, Insurance Code); or
1-17                 (4)  Article 21.55, Insurance Code.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.