By: Carona S.B. No. 1530 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to unfair trade practices in the business of insurance; 1-2 providing administrative and civil penalties. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 4, Article 21.21, Insurance Code is 1-5 amended by amending Subsection (4) to read as follows: 1-6 (4) Boycott, Coercion and Intimidation. Entering into any 1-7 agreement to commit, or by any concerted action committing, any act 1-8 of boycott, coercion or intimidation resulting in or tending to 1-9 result in unreasonable restraint of, or monopoly in, the business 1-10 of insurance. For the purposes of this section, coercion includes 1-11 an action or agreement by any entity subject to this code that 1-12 offers multiple health plans or products and which requires a 1-13 health care provider, as a condition of participation in a health 1-14 plan or product of the entity, to participate in any of the 1-15 entity's other health plans or products. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.