By:  Carona                                           S.B. No. 1530
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                                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.