By:  Jackson                                          S.B. No. 1657
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the compensation of an officer, trustee, or director of
 1-2     a domestic insurance company.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Article 3.12, Insurance Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  A [No] "domestic" company may not [shall] pay any
 1-7     salary, compensation or emolument which, together with any salary,
 1-8     compensation or emolument from an affiliated "domestic" company,
 1-9     amounts in any year to more than $100,000 [Fifty Thousand Dollars
1-10     ($50,000)] to any officer, trustee or director of the "domestic"
1-11     company [thereof], or to any person, firm or corporation, unless
1-12     such payment be first authorized by a vote of the board of
1-13     directors of such company, or by a committee of such board charged
1-14     with the duty of authorizing such payments.  The limitation as to
1-15     time contained in this article does [herein shall] not prevent a
1-16     [be construed as preventing any] "domestic" company from entering
1-17     into contracts with its agents for the payment of renewal
1-18     commissions.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.