BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center S.B. 1136
80R7203 AJA-D By: Brimer
AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
The Texas Legislative Council is required by law to carry out a complete nonsubstantive revision of the Texas statutes. The process involves reclassifying and rearranging the statutes in a more logical order; employing a numbering system and format that will accommodate future expansion of the law; eliminating repealed, invalid, duplicative, and other ineffective provisions; and improving the draftsmanship of the law if practicable. These efforts are carried out in order to make the statutes more accessible, understandable, and usable without altering the sense, meaning, or effect of the law.
As proposed, S.B. 1136 makes nonsubstantive revisions to relating to the Texas Department of Insurance, the business of insurance, and certain related businesses, to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in the codified Insurance Code, and to conforming the provisions of that code that were codified by the 79th Legislature to other Acts of that legislature, including conforming amendments, repeals, and penalties.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
S.B. 1136 provides for the nonsubstantive revision of all codes, as follows:
ARTICLE 1. REVISION OF THE INSURANCE CODE OF 1951. (Pages 1-130 of this bill.)
SECTION 1N.001. Effective date, this Article: April 1, 2009.
ARTICLE 2. UPDATES OF CROSS-REFERENCES IN TITLES 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, AND 13, INSURANCE CODE. (Pages 130-248 of this bill.)
SECTION 2K.001. Effective date, this Article: April 1, 2009.
ARTICLE 3. INSURANCE CODE UPDATE. (Pages 248-409 of this bill.)
SECTION 3B.077. Effective date, this Article: September 1, 2007.